that the antinomian both drives, and is driven by, ideas; ideas strong and
possibly noble; ideas necessarily crude, indistinct, and unreal. The nomistic,
by contrast, chloroforms ideas, and places them under glass. One implication
for Australian exceptionalism of the strength of the nomistic and the weakness
of the antinomian is the weakness of unbound ideals in Australia and the
strength ofidéesfixe. £1 an acre, a 7s per day wage, the 2½ inch wide wool
comb, the four pillars of banking; it is in observing such formulas that much
energy of Australian society has been poured.
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