Tasmania

Tasmania is an island state of Australia, located 240 km (150 mi) to the south of the Australian mainland. Quotes Bonwick, Ling-Roth, West, and others have written the story of the Tasmanians, whose numbers have been estimated at from a few score thousand to three hundred thousand when Tasman first saw the island in 1642. The natives had wondrous bodies, a singular and extremely complex language, a rich store of myths, and were at first only friendly; but their land and its products were valuable, and this was their unpardonable crime. They were gradually crowded to a corner by a cordon which it was death to cross, and were shot like animals, the settlers by notching their gun-stocks keeping tally of the heads of those killed. G. Stanley Hall, in a paper delivered to the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1903 In April 2018, I visited Tasmania and stayed at the MACq 01 Hotel in Hobart. It is a unique “storytelling hotel,” where each room is named after, and displays memorabilia of, a significant character in Tasmanian history. For an extraordinary coincidence, my wife and I were assigned room 215, named after Charles Chiniquy. I had devoted several studies to the notion of apostasy, and Chiniquy was the most famous “professional apostate” of the 19th century. Massimo Introvigne, "Are Apostates Reliable? 1. The Problem of Apostasy", Bitter Winter (January 10, 2022) See also People from Tasmania External links Category:Tasmania Tasmania