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the leases that Gipps would have refused. Within the 

 Colony he had but one influential ally. The Bishop of 

 Australia was to him what Bishop Selwyn was to Sir 

 George Grey in New Zealand. Both had been educated 

 in English Canterbury and were schoolmates there ; 

 both were married there ; and there both suddenly died 

 —Gipps in 1847 and Broughton in 1853. They had 

 fought side by side in New South Wales, and in death 

 they were not divided. To both there are monuments 

 in Canterbury Cathedral, where it was appropriate that 

 a battle so heroic as theirs should be durably com- 

 memorated. 



If Hegel is right in affirming — and Cardinal Newman 

 speaks to the same effect — that they who, like Joseph 

 de Maistre and Edmund Burke, honestly and nobly 

 resist the progress of true ideas more effectually subserve 

 the interests of society than they whose crimes or offences 

 have been made the means of realising such ideas, then 

 was Sir George Gipps of greater moral worth in opposing 

 the pastoral advance, at least in the form of runholding 

 on a large scale, than was Robert Lowe, whose duphcity 

 and tergiversation brought about their realisation. If 

 not directly a maker of Australasia, Gipps was un- 

 designedly a moulder and directer of a large body of its 

 makers. 



