164 THE PASTORAL AGE IN AUSTRALASIA 



The consciousness of powers that fitted him to play a 

 high part in the most august senate on Earth was ahready 

 stirring within him. The future anti-democrat had 

 been trained for his mission on AustraUan battlefields. 

 The squatters' apostate, through Mhose instrumentahty 

 the great pastoralists were established on their stations, 

 was, in the most direct manner, a maker of Australasia. 



