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palmy days of industrialism, and has fresh angle of approach to many que,icontinueçt ever since, our broad acres tions astonished me. .trc rapidly becoming bare acres. _We Never once in Australia have I felt seem to be blind to one great lesson as a stranger. 1 felt that I was of history. The decline of the Roman amongst my own kith and kin, amongst a people whose language was my c,inpire set in when she began to im-Neglect of language. whose ideals were my ideals, port corn from Egypt. the land, the ultimate source of all whose loyalties were my l'Jyalties, wealth, has always spelled ruin. One whose hopes and aspirations were feels that in Australia, instead of six mine also. million people, there ought to be 60 We of the mother country regard million, mostly settled on the land. I believe in a White Australia, but I Australia as a land of hope aud eory; of hope because the Old Woad, weakdo not believe in emigrating the unsmployed from the home countries to ened with many infirmities, war-worn Grown men and women and weary, looks to Australia as lo a Australia. do young giant- girding its loins to go But the greatest marvel of all is are not easily acclimatised, nor forth in freshness of spirit and grapadapt readily part the most tor they the stupendous progress made by man ple with the gathering forces which life. conditions of to new themselves in a single century in civilising this threaten to disrupt civilisation; of vast continent. It is an achievement Oftentimes they are embittered and glory, because, though many countries A bethope. courage and have lost without parallel in the annals of hister policy, and one 'at present in glory in their past, and Australia can tory. Your great cities, your netcourse of trial, is to bring young Brit- glory in its century of achievement. work of roads, your railways, your its real glory is yet to come, the pastoral and agricultural products, ish buys and girls here for agricultural glory of an unspoiled land heralding, your universities, Your commerce, and and industrial training, so that they the dawn of a brighter and better fuyour national and State institutions may grow up imbued with the ideas ture for humanity. and that they ideals of Australia, so DR. DOWNEY liROADCASTS are outstanding achievements in the FROM THE ARCHBISHOP'S ROOM history of the human race. may become in fact Australians, with the outlook, the vision, and the sentiIt is practically three months since Recently, whilst at Adelaide, I mot- ments of the children of the early set I was last in Perth, having just landored through the country round tlers in this land. If this country is to rise to the height of its oppoituni• ed in Australia for the first time. Perth ' Mount Barker, and was struck by the ties it needs above all else increased was the first Australian city with way in which the land has been made There were man power. which I made contact, and surely one to yield of its fulness. peaches, apricots, plums, vines, olives, could not wish for a better introducHow great are these opportunities The to say nothing of potatoes, tomatoes, is obvious to all. Here is a vast contion to this laud of beauty. all other vegetables, cabbages, and memory of its quiet charm has remain- growing in tropical abundance. tinent untrammelled by the bad old The The Archbishop of Liverpool (Dr. ed with me ever since, and is likely to traditions of the past. In Europe as in Devas well husbanded land is remain all the days of my life. 1 was there is hardly a square foot of soil 1)owney-1. in his Advent Pastoral, reit reminded indeed onshire. of which impressed by its graceful river windon which a battle has not been fought. ferring to the modern gospel of proBut the labour of many cengress. says: ing its way through fairy scenery, and me. E verywhere there are memories of im to make Devonshire intrigued by its black swans, those turies has gone this land has been placable hates and antagonisms, and "Underlying the gospel of progress whereas black swans which so staggered the fertile, cleared, tilled and planted all the seeds of future strifes. Not so and the Utopias which are its literary tamed, naturalists of a former generation, liv- within in Australia. Somewhere near Balexpressions is - the glamorous theory living memory. So, too, with ing symbols, as it were, of the many building up of your cities. I have larat I was shown the only spot on of the absolute perfectibility of hushocks which this New World was to the which blood has been shed in war- man nature. It is fondly imagined old inhabitants who can readminister to the dogmatism of the spoken to fare in the whole of this continent. that in course- of time evolutionary in their early beginOle. It was at Perth that I began member them short Von face the future with a clean re- forces will, of their own momentum, span of time you to revise my conceptions of Australia. nings. In a You are not suspect of the produce a nobler and better type of but what of cord. much, accomplished have I had expected to find in Perth a nations. In lecturing on International man who wi11 be completely emancifuture? the naturally beautiful city, but probably Peace, I have found that Australians pated from the lure of the seven deadglaringly new, and perhaps even a I have been told that it is quixotic approach the subject dispassionately, ly sins. little crude after the fashion of much- to think of Australia as ever supportwithout the bias and prejudices of "This optimistic fancy ignores the belauded towns which I had seen in ing a really large population. It is Europeans. In Europe every man is America. But Perth does not give urged that it is in the main a sheep a partisan. The Australian, on the fact that, whatever else may be in a the impression of immaturity, of hav- and cattle grazing country, and that other hand- takes a detached and iro state of flux, human nature remains ing been built in a hurry, and made great tracts of it can never be made Personal view of such questions as dis- essentially the same; that, the subject of doulitful experiments fruitful owing to the lack of water. armament and it is fo;. him to give a "in consequence of original sin, man On the contrary, it seems to tune in But as a matter of fact there is plenty much-needed lead to the public opin is, and always will be, prone to with the eternal hills which surround of water in Australia, though much of ion of the world, evil, and that his passions must be it. It has a dignity beyond its Years. it is beneath the earth. You have subdued by the aid of divine grace. whi t eetaining the -freshness, the even rivers running inland away from Already Australia has set a standhumane conbrightness, and the sparkle of youth. the sea. and more of higher ard "The theory of moral development The problem is not one of In many respects it seems to me to supply, but merely of distribution, one ditions of living for the masses. One as a by-product of progress is in flagbe a key -city to Australia, and it is which science can certainly solve. notices - the absence of anything like rant contradiction to the lessons of well that overseas visitors should There are no limits to the future of real slums in your cities, and the care universal history and of individual make its acquaintance early in their this land of promise once you have bestowed on the welfare of children. experience. We know how in ancient tour of your country. I have seen devised a comprehensive system of irThe degradations which are the shame Greece the lowest depths of moral demuch and learnt much since I was rigation and harnessed the immens( of many cities in turope have been gradation went hand in hand with the last in Perth. Like Ulysses, I have hidden supplies of water which are at eliminated from Your lives. It is no highest levels of culture, and so it been on a long voyage of discovery, present running waste. I have mot- small thing to have solved some of -- would have continued in the civilisaand eventually returned to the place ored through the country round Cam- the social problems which are still as tion of Rome that followed, had it from which I started. I have dwelt perd.own and seen the vast sheep-raisciviliin our European sores festering not been for the regenerating influin mellow Melbourne, one of the best- ing area which gives to the world its sation. ence of Christianity. planned cities in the world: I have best merino wool, and I thought to mans "There is no necessary opposition lectured much in I have delighted in Sydney Harbour, and myself, behold the real wealth of Ausplace the Australian between material and spiritual procountries, but I sailed around its glorious roast; 1 tralia. But T. have also motored have .visited the gold-mining towns of through other districts of vast extent audiences amongst the most stimulat - gress, though the former may be, ano B endigo and Ballarat, with all their which seem to be quite desolate, their ing that 1 have ever addressed. Their often is, stressed to the detriment of far - famed allurment; I have seen Bris- possibilities as yet unexplored, and it physical fitness seems to be reflected the latter. . . . But we insist that "the true progress of the human They are bane in its sun-baked loveliness, and is of these districts that I am now in their mental alertness. race is not to be found in things keen to ask questions, and bent on I have motored through the heart of speaking. which are as external to man as getting to the root of the matter. On Q ueensland to fertile Toowoomba. A nd still I speak with diffidence, for I the very clothes that he wears, but Australia seems to me to have in- some oecasions I felt that I was being f eel that as vet I have hardly acquir- . herited n0orly the virtues, but also very thoroughly explored by expert in things that pertain to his inmost ed the right perspective to analyse some of being, the things of the spirit. weaknesses of the MOther diggers. It mattered little on what ur.ty impressions. They have not had Country. It has been said somewhat subject I addressed them, always they "True progress must be in accorslw anted to know. time to sort themselves .out and setAnd here let me ance with the immutable dictates of caustically that the English, who have tle iinto place, so that I ran only a genius for colonisation, ought to say that I learnt a great deal from the moral law and the unchangeable . throw out, as it were, the first glean- colonise England. Through the drift them. They not merely asked for, revelation of our Lord and Saviour ings of my mind. from the land, v, hicli began in the but imparted information, and the:r _Testis Christ." This is a land of wondess. I have seen floods in Melbourne such as I have never witnessed before. I have motored through flying clouds of grasshoppers till finalradiator and ly they blocked the brought the car to a standstill. To my amaiement I have found beautiful butterflies a pest second only to grasshoppers in impeding one's progress liv roMr." From an aeroplane I have seen sharks on the prowl just outside the surf line by- the coast. -I have Looked upon the kookaburra. the emu, and the kangaroo, and I have heard insects sing like a Sistine Choir. Truly this. is a land of marvels.
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