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Author
Featherstone, Guy
Title
Bonwick, James (1817-1906), teacher
In
Australian dictionary of biography, volume 3: 1851 - 1890 A-C
Editor
Douglas Pike
Imprint
Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 190-182
Url
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030182b.htm
Format
Print
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Published online in 2006.

Abstract

Quote: "James Bonwick was amiable and quickly made many friends. He was full of nervous energy and had a passion for work, as revealed by his wide range of publications and the huge bulk of transcripts personally copied by him. More than sixty publications can be attributed to him and they reveal the major characteristic of his mind: breadth but no depth. Besides history, geology and anthropology were his most persistent interests, and he was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1865 and of the Anthropological Institute in 1869; yet in those fields he was more a competent and industrious amateur than an original thinker. Though he often gave evidence to select committees on education his philosophy was derivative and based on an overbearing belief in the moral regeneration which educational facilities could achieve. The best of Bonwick's historical works show an extensive, methodical search for facts, but are unimaginative and lack digestion or analysis. "

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