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Title: David Syme, the father of protection in Australia
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Pratt, Ambrose, 1874-1944 Deakin, Alfred, 1856-1919
Subjects: Syme, David, 1827-1908 Tariff -- Australia Victoria History Victoria -- Politics and government
Publisher: London (etc.) : Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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stralia of to-day that he adored, itwas the Australia of his vision, the country hedesired and ardently believed Australia destined tobecome. David Symes character may be summed up in afew words. He was supposed to be complex andmysterious, in reality he was as simple as a child—simple in his loves and hates, simple in his foreseeingaims, and simple in his methods. He was incapableof tergiversation or inconstancy. He was invinciblyconsistent. He fixed his course and proceeded, withthe simple directness of a consciously unconquer-able strength, straight to the goal. He never pal-tered with his principles. He never compromisedwith his convictions. His face was set before. Henever looked back. He injured many people andsometimes without just cause, but he never did so bydevious means, but always openly and in fair fight.In a word, he was simple, and the great force heemployed, which has done so much for Australia,derived alike its origin and its all-compelling powerfrom his simplicity.
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G CHAPTER XVDavid Syme as a Writer Symes Books—Outlines of an Industrial Science—Its scope andaim—Representative Government in England—Its effecton Australian politics—On the modification of Organisms—Darwins theory of natural selection disputed—The Soul :Symes greatest literary work—His power of destructivecriticism—His theories of design in nature—His theoriesof the hereafter—His lesser contributions to literature—Hisplace in English letters. David Symes first book, Outlines of an IndustrialScience, was published in 1877. It embodied theresults of many years of close thought and earneststudy of economic principles in daily practice, andcontained an exposition of the science of Protectioncombined with an attack upon the fallacies ofCobdenism. With ruthless temerity and logic it dissected themost popular dogmas of the old school of Englishpolitical economists, laid bare their defective sys-tem of investigation and untenable conclusions, andafter exposing their

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