Moreover, primitive America resembled Oceanica and northern Asia in its ignorance of iron, in its Stone Age civilization, and its retarded social and political development.
Many customs of Oceanica can be understood only in the light of the small value attached to human life in this island world.
Everywhere in Oceanica marriage is unstable, and with few exceptions unchastity prevails.
The constant pressure of population upon the limits of subsistence throughout Oceanica has occasioned a low valuation of human life.
In Oceanica polygamy, monogamy or polyandry prevails according to a man's means, the poverty of the islands, and the supply of women.
It is still in use in most of the islands of Oceanica (Fig.
It is certainly clearer than the junction of Africa and north-western Asia; not more obscure than that between Oceanica and the Transgangetic Peninsula; and incalculably less mysterious than that which joins Asia to Europe.
Asia, America, and even Oceanica here give proofs that the Church has a hold among their populations, and that they have sympathies ready in her behalf.
The addresses from Australia and Oceanica are from the Archbishop of Sidney, and the Bishops of Melbourne and Auckland.
It is the peculiar distinction of Oceanica to furnish about the most degraded and repulsive of those wretched beings, who seem to occupy a sort of intermediate station between man and the mere brute.
When the white races of Europe, the Mongols of Asia, the aborigines of America, the black races of Africa and Oceanica are placed beside each other, they are marked by stronger differences than are the species of the genera above named.
More remarkable is the influence that American has exerted upon the speech of Australia and upon the crude dialects of Oceanica and the Far East.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oceanica" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
