The English missionaries in Australia tried various measures to develop the Aborigines’ sense of individuality. As the anthropologist Bain Atwood writes, “the missionaries sought to make each
[aborigine] an integrated centre of consciousness, distinct from the natural world
and from other aborigines.”
--- Does it say that they wanted to teach each Aborigine how to have/develop his/her own consciousness which would be different from the consciousness of other Aborigines and from the natural world?
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Hi, Yes, that's the idea. Clive
— Clive
Hi, Yes, that's the idea.
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