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Thanks, Judith, for introducing me through the first essay in this collection to a major figure in Australian life who before now I was completely unaware of. Alfred Deakin, our 2nd prime minister, & one of our most influential, who helped form large & enduring parts of our national identity in the first decade after Federation, was a strange (& handsome!) man who seems primarily to have been a mystic!