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      PART I.

      THE HISTORY OF ATLANTIS.

      I. THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK

      II. PLATO'S HISTORY OF ATLANTIS

      III. THE PROBABILITIES OF PLATO'S STORY

      IV. WAS SUCH A CATASTROPHE POSSIBLE?

      V. THE TESTIMONY OF THE SEA

      VI. THE TESTIMONY OF THE FLORA AND FAUNA

      PART II.

      THE DELUGE.

      I. THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS DESCRIBED IN THE DELUGE LEGENDS

      II. THE DELUGE OF THE BIBLE

      III. THE DELUGE OF THE CHALDEANS

      IV. THE DELUGE LEGENDS OF OTHER NATIONS

      V. THE DELUGE LEGENDS OF AMERICA

      VI. SOME CONSIDERATION OF THE DELUGE LEGENDS

      PART III

      THE CIVILIZATION OF THE OLD WORLD AND NEW COMPARED.

      I. CIVILIZATION AN INHERITANCE

      II. THE IDENTITY OF THE CIVILIZATIONS OF THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW

      III. AMERICAN EVIDENCES OF INTERCOURSE WITH EUROPE OR ATLANTIS

      IV. CORROBORATING CIRCUMSTANCES

      V. THE QUESTION OF COMPLEXION

      VI. GENESIS CONTAINS A HISTORY OF ATLANTIS

      VII. THE: ORIGIN OF OUR ALPHABET

      VIII. THE BRONZE AGE IN EUROPE

      IX. ARTIFICIAL DEFORMATION OF THE SKULL

      PART IV.

      THE MYTHOLOGIES OF THE OLD WORLD A RECOLLECTION OF ATLANTIS.

      I. TRADITIONS OF ATLANTIS

      II. THE KINGS OF ATLANTIS BECOME THE GODS OF THE GREEKS

      III. THE GODS OF THE PHOENICIANS ALSO KINGS OF ATLANTIS

      IV. THE GOD ODIN, WODEN, OR WOTAN

      V. THE PYRAMID, THE CROSS, AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN

      VI. GOLD AND SILVER THE SACRED METALS OF ATLANTIS

      PART V.

      THE COLONIES OF ATLANTIS.

      I. THE CENTRAL AMERICAN AND MEXICAN COLONIES

      II. THE EGYPTIAN COLONY

      III. THE COLONIES OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY

      IV. THE IBERIAN COLONIES OF ATLANTIS

      V. THE PERUVIAN COLONY

      VI. THE AFRICAN COLONIES

      VII. THE IRISH COLONIES FROM ATLANTIS

      VIII. THE OLDEST SON OF NOAH

      IX. THE ANTIQUITY OF SOME OF OUR GREAT INVENTIONS

      X. THE ARYAN COLONIES FROM ATLANTIS

      XI. ATLANTIS RECONSTRUCTED

      ATLANTIS:

      THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD.

      PART I. THE HISTORY OF ATLANTIS.

      CHAPTER I.

      THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK.

      This book is an attempt to demonstrate several distinct and novel propositions. These are:

      1. That there once existed in the Atlantic Ocean, opposite the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea, a large island, which was the remnant of an Atlantic continent, and known to the ancient world as Atlantis.

      2. That the description of this island given by Plato is not, as has been long supposed, fable, but veritable history.

      3. That Atlantis was the region where man first rose from a state of barbarism to civilization.

      4. That it became, in the course of ages, a populous and mighty nation, from whose overflowings the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River, the Amazon, the Pacific coast of South America, the Mediterranean, the west coast of Europe and Africa, the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Caspian were populated by civilized nations.

      5. That it was the true Antediluvian world; the Garden of Eden; the Gardens of the Hesperides; the Elysian Fields; the Gardens of Alcinous; the Mesomphalos; the Olympos; the Asgard of the traditions of the ancient nations; representing a universal memory of a great land, where early mankind dwelt for ages in peace and happiness.

      6. That the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Hindoos, and the Scandinavians were simply the kings, queens, and heroes of Atlantis; and the acts attributed to them in mythology are a confused recollection of real historical events.

      7. That the mythology of Egypt and Peru represented the original religion of Atlantis, which was sun-worship.

      8. That the oldest colony formed by the Atlanteans was probably in Egypt, whose civilization was a reproduction of that of the Atlantic island.

      9. That the implements of the "Bronze Age" of Europe were derived from Atlantis. The Atlanteans were also the first manufacturers of iron.

      10. That the Phoenician alphabet, parent of all the European alphabets, was derived from an Atlantis alphabet, which was also conveyed from Atlantis to the Mayas of Central America.

      11. That Atlantis was the original seat of the Aryan or Indo-European family of nations, as well as of the Semitic peoples, and possibly also of the Turanian races.

      12. That Atlantis perished in a terrible convulsion of nature, in which the whole island sunk into the ocean, with nearly all its inhabitants.

      13. That a few persons escaped in ships and on rafts, and, carried to the nations east and west the tidings of the appalling catastrophe, which has survived to our own time in the Flood and Deluge legends of the different nations of the old and new worlds.

      If these propositions can be proved, they will solve many problems which now perplex mankind; they will confirm in many respects the statements in the opening chapters of Genesis; they will widen the area of human history; they will explain the remarkable resemblances which exist between the ancient civilizations found upon the opposite shores of the Atlantic Ocean, in the old and new worlds; and they will aid us to rehabilitate the fathers of our civilization, our blood, and our fundamental ideas-the men who lived, loved, and labored ages before the Aryans descended upon India, or the Phoenician had settled in Syria, or the Goth had reached the shores of the Baltic.

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