Here, I try to explain the colonisation of Australia and the stand the settlers take against Aborigines. I want to know whether the mentality of man changed from the early Age of discovery, where the explorers would violently push indigenous people to the edge of extinction and over, to the 19th century people, the era of renaissance, absolutism and the industrial revolution. Pioneers have argued their superiority on the basis of the terra nullius law, the doctrines of the noble savage, the natural state and the natural law. The British government, as opposed to the self initiative of early seafarers, would establish a penal colony on a newly discovered continent of Terra Australis with instructions to the governor to reconciliate his relationship with the natives. However, he did not have the means of the local government to do so, so the settlers pushed Aborigines out to the dessert. The social theory of the other explains the discovery and the rejection of his equality to self, which made the other inferior.
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