A History of Australia, I Quotes

“By the middle of the seventeenth century the Dutch had written the very first page in the history of European civilization in Australia by stating that there was no good to be done there. William Dampier popularized this idea amongst the English reading public half a century later.”
― Manning Clark, A History of Australia, I: From the Earliest Times to the Age of Macquarie

“Civilization did not begin in Australia until the last quarter of the eighteenth century. The reason lies partly in the environment and way of life of the people inhabiting the continent before the coming of the European, and partly in the internal history of those Hindu, Chinese, and Muslim civilizations which colonized and traded in the archipelago of south-east Asia. The early inhabitants of the continent created cultures but not civilizations.”
― Manning Clark, A History of Australia, I: From the Earliest Times to the Age of Macquarie