European Exploration of Australia/1700%e2%80%931769

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    “Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.”
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    “I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.”
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