m il ilin Ul III • IIIVL'ivi'izarion of the Aboriginal Inhabitants ofAustralia.1. The Aborigines of An itralii, having hitherto resisted n!t etFort* which hive been made for their civilization, it would appear that if they nre capable of being civilized, it can he shown, that all the system i oti which thc'c effort* li.ivc been founded contained some common error, or tli u each of the.n involved some erroneous principles ; the former supposition appears to be the true one, for they .-II contained one element — they all started with one recognized principle, the presence of which in the scheme must necessarily have entailed its faduro.2, This principle was, that although the N'a-tives sboul l, as far as Kuronenn property and