"Australia to the world lay hid in night: God said, "Let Grattan be!" and all was light."
— C. Hartley Grattan

January 1, 1970

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G. V. Portus, review of Introducing Australia (1942); cp. Pope's epitaph for Newton. Quoted in Laurie Hergenhan, No Casual Traveller (1995), Ch. 10, p. 200