"Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to……" — Richard Flanagan
"Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines."
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Richard Flanagan
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