Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.