Garnet Kelly Reserve — Attraction in Normanville

i was going to write a review but... The history of all hitherto existing society(2) is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master(3) and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.

The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — Bourgeoisie and...

The picnic tables aren't great but the Great (Big) Gorge walk which begins at the reserve was lovely. As someone with Rheumatoid Arthritis, who requires a walking stick, it was not too difficult but I had to give up at the ruins as the walk was too long for me. It is beautiful scenery and the trees were amazing along the way. It would be good if they could add one or more extra seats. The current one is too close to the start. Perhaps if they added one at the ruins that...

Really pleasant easy walk. Not busy at all (although it is after a long weekend). Nice remnant vegetation with some huge old gum trees. Wild deer and a reasonable selection of birds seen even for a windy...