Excerpt from New South Wales: The Mother Colony of the Australias
The purpose of this book may be very briefly told: As there are stages in the life of the individual when he naturally pauses, or is made to pause, and takes stock, so to say, of his actual position, his profit or loss account to date, his probable or possible prospects for the future, so there may be in the case ofa community. Such a time in the affairs of this community to the projectors of this volume appeared to be the present. We are on the eve, rather, at the starting point of a totally new departure in our political and commercial, and therefore, it maybe hoped, in our industrial and social, career; and in order that due note may be possible here after of our progress or otherwise, it behoves us to know exactly to-day, in all these respects, Where we start from. Hence the engagement of experts in all these departments, and in every branch of them, to set down, in no great detail indeed, which would swell the volume to a library, but with absolute accuracy, precisely Where and how we stand at the present moment in regard to each; and hence, we think may be added, within the covers of this book one of the most marvellous records ever written of any country in the world.
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