I went away very well satisfy’d, not caring where I was sent, so it was but out of his Sight; for he now became more my Aversion than ever.

who, with his soft pipe, and smooth-dittied song

In the 1930s, the government and the private sector had switched stereotypical roles, with the entrepreneurial impulse coming from the executive branch and resistance to change coming from Main Street “businesscrats.”

The first Australians, I reflected, will have known real monsters such as the Thylacaleo, or ‘marsupial lion’.