South Australia in 1887

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Excerpt from South Australia in 1887: A Handbook for the Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition, With Introduction by Sir Samuel Davenport, K. C. M. G., LL. D South Australia was not the offshoot from another colony. It was a distinct and independent individual, not a cutting nor a layer, but with roots and stem and branches, it had its own complete and compact being. Besides, it had novelties in its composition. It was the exponent of a new theory of colonization evolved by Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Nature gave the land, and the sale of this was to supply the capital for the introduction of labor necessary to raise the wealth from it which should provide for its future life. In anticipation of the funds to be thus ultimately acquired from land, a sufficient loan had been authorised by the mother country. So at its birth, a fresh response was given to the prayer of the great Milton, who, in 1641, implored that that Divine Power which had built up the Britannic Empire to a glorious a'nd enviable height, with all her daughter islands about her, would stay us in this felicity and an additional illustration was started of Penn's theory who said that colonies are the seeds of nations. Begun and nourished by the care of wise and populous countries. In 1832 there was a great want of employment in England, and a not inconsequent desire amongst all classes for emigration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.