21.7.02

australian nobility {Thomas Keneally treats of this movement in 'Bettany's Book'.
I say nobility because it is the mark of a truly noble heart, not the inherited name, but the thing the name came out of, the stuff of human living that is more than the animal grasp, what we make out of nothing, and defend in the face of incalculable opposition. And it's close to the hour we now pass through.}