'How are the Egyptians behaving?': Herbert Brookes, British-Australian

Australian Historical Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 113, 1999, Pages 303-318

  Cochrane, Peter ^a  

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ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PREJUDICE; RACE RELATIONS; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0010794031     PISSN: 1031461X     EISSN: 19405049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10314619908596104     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Rohan Rivett, Australian Citizen: Herbert Brookes, 1867-1963, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne,1965, p. 76
2. Walter Murdoch, 'On Having Enemies', in his Selections from Walter Murdoch, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1941, p. 98
3. and St Peter in 1 Peter 4:10, 'As each has received a gift, employ it for one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace'. The term figured in John Wesley's correspondence too, as when he told his brother that, while he lived 'the people shall have no share in choosing either stewards or leaders among the Methodists'. Cited in Douglas Pike, Paradise of Dissent, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1967, p. 16
4. J.A. LaNauze, Alfred Deakin: A Biography, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1979, p. 405
5. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians, Knopf, New York, 1991, p. 17
6. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Victorian Minds, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1968, p. 290. According to Himmelfarb, George Eliot is also reported to have said that God was 'inconceivable' and immortality 'unbelievable', but duty was nonetheless 'peremptory and absolute' (p. 291)
7. J.Y. Simpson, 'Henry Drummond', Expositor, May 1902. Brookes Papers, MS 1924/4/647. A long letter from Brookes to Simpson appears in this article. For another use of 'button-holed my soul'
8. Early Life at Hollybush, Brookes Papers, MS 1924/7/3570-3749. Drummond's work was singled out in Robert Gordon Menzies' famous evocation of Empire: 'To me it means a cottage in the wheat lands of the North-West of the State of Victoria, with the Bible and Henry Drummond and Jerome K. Jerome and The Scottish Chiefs and Burns on the shelves'. See Judith Brett, Robert Menzies' Forgotten People, Macmillan, Sydney, 1992, p. 134
9. John Fiske, The Beginnings of New England: Or The Puritan Theocracy in its Relation to Civil and Religious Liberty, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1889
10. He seems to fit Michael Roe's model of 'progressivism', though perhaps he did not share enough in the Progressives' enthusiasm for social planning to merit this tag. See Michael Roe, Nine Australian Progressives: Vitalism in Bourgeois Social Thought, 1890-1960
11. Herbert Brookes, The Empire and the Imperial Issue: An Address Delivered Before the Royal Empire Society, Victorian Protestant Federation, Melbourne, 1932, pp. 5, 7. Brookes Papers, MS 1924/20/166
12. Cited in Francis G. Peabody, Jesus Christ and the Social Question, n.p., Boston, 1904, pp. 184-5
13. On Marshall, see Himmelfarb, Poverty and Compassion, pp. 293-303. For Marshall's essay, see Alfred Marshall, Memorials, ed. A.C. Pigou, Macmillan, London, 1925. Marshall was not religious but he, too, saw chivalry in business as a sign of evolutionary progress
14. C.R. Badger, The Reverend Charles Strong and the Australian Church, Abacada Press on behalf of the Charles Strong Memorial Trust, Melbourne, 1971. Badger does not mention Brookes, or Jessie Strong. Michael Roe discusses Strong's 'Australianism' in his 'Historical Survey of Australian Nationalism', Victorian Historical Magazine, vol. 42, no. 4, November 1971, p. 662
15. John Rickard, A Family Romance: The Deakins at Home, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996, especially chap. 4
16. see 'What Have Liberals Done', Liberal, 22 July 1911, pp. 5-7
17. Brookes, Where Socialism Fails and must Fail, p. 21
18. For these policies, see Citizens' Loyalist Committee Objectives. Brookes Papers, MS 1924/21/109-111, 113-15, 116-17
19. Brookes' part in counter-revolutionary activity is also mentioned in Raymond Evans, Loyalty and Disloyalty, Allen &Unwin, Sydney, 1987, pp. 151-2
20. andAndrew Moore, The Secret Army and the Premier, New South Wales University Press, Sydney, 1989, pp. 24-8, 36
21. Deakin had been explicit about this in 1882, when he warned that Catholic children were being brought up 'not as young Victorians but as members of another nationality altogether; in fact that a Young Ireland is to grow up in the midst of a young Victoria. We want no such distinctions'.Quoted in Patrick O'Farrell, The Catholic Church and the Australian Community, Nelson, Melbourne, 1977, p. 233
22. Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.' Himmelfarb, Victorian Minds, p. 271