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There never was, probably there never again will be, a people so prosperous and so full of confidence in the future as we Australians were in the year which saw us a century old.
We were proud indeed of the noble heritage which had fallen to us. Where, a hundred years before, the land was practically a vast solitude, scantily peopled by the lowest savages, noble cities had sprung up with thriving industries, halls of learning, acid spires rising heavenwards.