Cirrus@Austlit

Epigraphs:
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
For what it is worth, my own view is that in contemporary Australia the dialectical quest for truth about the indigenous culture, by open argument and counter argument, is no less important than about the culture of the invaders and oppressors. Both investigations, I believe, are best carried on by scholars whose primary loyalty is not to one heritage or the other but to the principle that nothing is sacrosanct except the spirit of free inquiry itself. The custodians of that particular flame are without race, as are their enemies. - L. R. Hiatt, Arguments about Aborigines: Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology.