Tales of the Convict System (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It has been said by a distinguished Melbourne littémteur that the pages which record the penal chapters of Australian history should be turned down. 7c cannot turn them down if we would. The Transporta tion System has knitted itself into the fibres of our national being. There is notasingle Australasian province (and this includes Victoria, South Australia and Maori land) whose character was left unvitiated by the methods England adopted for the disposal of the criminals she had bred in three provinces the existing legal systems bear the marks of the convict-mould in which they were fashioned in two, peculiar land-tenures obtain which, the corollary of the conditions of penal settlement, blight the whole population today. The convict past of Australia cannot be shut out of sight. N 0 man can put his finger on the date when it ended, for the reason that it glided imperceptibly into the vigorous and splendid, if still imperfect, present.

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