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“THE MYTH-OF-ATLANTIS

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The purpose of this book is not so mieli to demonstrate the Former existence of an Atlantean Continent us to place the sturdy or the whole problem of a more curate basis than has yet been attempled in recent times.". sees the protune.

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To say the least nf it this purpose i got fulfilled in the book," The- whole book from cover to cover is a pe of special pleading for the fattner existence of Atlaufis, for its castrophie abmergone aut a hole bery of addend which fol- low from this belief. Every hint is gnified into proof shadowy regablance converted into - mistakable imitation! Booting Joyth transformed into veritable

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arbitrary handling of Plato's say Much of this part al Mr. Speme's argument seuls to about an conclusive as that of the Chinese sinologue who got 1.1.8, and the sign for u dollar, $, from the

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1924,

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Pyramid and the Mayan stelo: the original hieroglyph from which Chinese character and ↑ Westergr alphabets arose in well an the

The English language is notori- original proboscident from which only the study of a lifetime, but the pig, elephant, tuple and phâteva low the bave had quits- not are descended. It all looka “Ko

easy and so nice. You will get it enough of it as a study at school. all within the covers of Mr. may, And that it makes a good. Spenco's 282 pages - "The hobby for naturer years. The Problem of Atlantis

ingenions "John o odon" has

CONCLUSION OR WHOLE!.

But most of

Dawson Then Mr. Spence and suit their constitution. He bad Atlantic side of the United States wiches in the views of Prof.then argued that they could easily of America I** Gregory between they of M. have gone with the food in native "A naturalist in Western China," Termier and Sir J. W. Dawson na

*Anyhow," he concluded:Vol. II. p. 11.) Cancer, a believer in sunken Ailantis. Wo with a delightful Yankee drawl, to

NUNTAL-LAZINESS. wonder does Prot. Gregory believe have the floor of the ocean raised

Herbert Spencer pointed out for in the existence of Atlantis till late ap fifteen thousand feet, for his

un long ago, the_fullncy adopted by Quaternary times, If he does, sails to emwl over, is just too

the man in the street for all why is the passage not-quoted? If { niveli,***

political difficulties. Was there ie does not, his evidence is useles Mr. Spence closes his biokgical ang social evil or excess? Oh! and, to say the lenst. of it, distinctly evidence with this passie make a law to stop it. Was there disingenuous when sandwiched in Hosts of these' animals dem- | too much liquoring? Close the

What will the reader think of clearly found it so, and in "Is It between two apparents believers.

mings) annnally Conve the public houses.

Was there dump this book? Will he be convinced? | Good English?'' (Newnes, 2×) he At times, too, Mr. Spence's Norwegian cost, and swim far outing of foreign goods? Put a turf We cannot say. Geologists and rambles through numberless of the Reology seems to be faulty, as into the Atlantic. On reaching the on them. There was just one biologists will we think, fail to

KI where, on pugo 34, he scenisyto { spot (which the migratory think Alat mountain chains are instinct baserringly called great fallacy in all las. The law respond to the blandishments of pleasant by ways in whigh :ait ever cured the eyil it was intended Peruvian folklore and dgyptian abounds. There is rtain composed of igneous rock. The them, they circle con fer to rectify, and it generally intto-mythology, especiilly. tans striking observational fact considerable time, as if in search of feed many new exils which had modern nuthorities on their own the split infinitive and such

the mount of grammar in the ok conected with mountain structure land, but, failing in the quest. never been dreamed of before subjects are so slightly-referred to mitters, but not, inercifully,-very- is that, without exception, the gradually uk exhausted in the In the scientific world there are Folklorists and Arinologists may ranges of the earth are built depths. Similarly it is well known similar difficulties which beset the be convinced though we question if. There is also some much.. essentially of sedimentary rocks,

Prof. Jnly).

that large fucks of birds anually biologist and anthropologist and even with them supposition can needed pliis speaking about cant fly to a part of the Atlantie where there is also a similar easy and take the place, of argument. Take expressions like the psychological. The chapter on the biological and is now visible and after obvious solution. How did life the following Equilly interest-montent." and the abuse of "Tiina- Chinese character und evidence--and it as the chief evid-ing about i diamey for some originale on the earth? Just pushing for us is the picture of the tion and cran

siderable time, fall exhausted its origin on to another planet.called heavenly shield. This the time the reader will find him- | Whatever we may say of Phao he ¦ lige—sertifis

How do we explain extssciousness? appears to me to represent a city on ceriainly knew of Athening writer to be the work in the book into the water."

This is not argument. Mr. Let soure god drop in a soul. How the Atlantean plan, surrounded by sell in the real by-ways, learning history that he did about the Most, of his argument, thongly Mr.

seems to realise it.Spence is apparently ignorant that do we secount for the distribution zones of land and water, and the origin of tawdry" and ignons roles which composed the Spence never fabled empital of Atlantis,

are really directly against tamself. Eels; which require deep sea of land animals over the continents having four roids lending to a bunkum secut glimpses of Why, for instance, should there be for their breeding purposes, make and islands? Put across a land central citadel, set between the trn species of soul fats animal year amplia: voyage across bridge for the nails and earth powers of light and darkness, Cobbett's Grammar wonder did "hom to the proximity of land") the Atlantic to the neighbourhood worms to emwl over upon; and be the following The symbol Cobbett ever write anything really in the of the Caribbenii, sou. They 'gronke the bridge appear and dia for East in the Maya hiero- | dull) and HL Mencken's transla- Muchins albiventre Mediteru and Monach just the part which Mr. Spence appear indefinitely pulsating with glyphical system also comun

of the Declaration of Tropiralis in the West Indies if supposes to live been Atlantis. the current of life.

These, of itself to me as diginetively there was a land competion till the Now the five million years of course, are the ensive and cheapest tinten. Here we dependence into modern Ameri bronze age between the two comprepared by the eel to acquire this of explanations. The only if the preceding yibdi, the city or cab A most interesting section in | tries? Does Mr. Spence think nuptial instinet puts out of the ficulty is that they are not surnunded island, and the way to that dealing with words that have there line been time since for a question all idea of land in the explanations" at all and they are the set, with the part gate and changed their meaning-dewean, new series to be evolved? If so, Atlantic for periods long prior to generally wong.

flanking towers. That the group. | why las Bre not been

#new the Camun.

Now in connection with Europe Should, stand for Fast en plenoménou and prevent: patent species of man developist? Mr.

On two occasions Mr. Spence and America there are similarly show that it was a reminisce night have been added to these. Spence exinot out his cake and mentions that he thinks the seed-hosts of these diffenities, biologi of an eastern locality."

Oddly enough, the author himself Many, indeed nost, geologists inve it.

There is abundance or argument nikes one bila akin syntax, If Atlantean rum is the less banon came originally from ral, ethnolgien), antiúopological,

to-day surely the Atlantia. Whit he wants to prove How would admit that there was good" Therian al

evount for of this type in the book. On one but he must be so nitch-annoyed evidence for a great land mass in Atlaten sod Should be the from this, or what assistance this Aurignáciumai, highly developed, reader it has produced a verylation is that it would be leruak to the Atlantic cevi in early geologie | Therian seul?!

fart gives him we cannot discover and with a keen artistle sise? definite result. He will read "The Į rub it in. even extending to

How God of Mexico and Then the old argument about! If the evidence from for could. Where did he come from?

The fi Morete times, But this, of und

copes up prove anything it would prove, not do we account for the Egyptian Envelopaedin of Oreultisin' with course, is of no use to Mr. Spence. | again. Houteboly is represented, that an island stretched across pyramid-builders Pond their chicer caution and reserve A highly civilised type of dan is as saying that no malacologist the Atlantic, but that a huge architecture, rising like Jonah's than ever he has done in the past, and testimony appear to ma dạ required for his Atlantis, Hanur nowadays conhi expinio, the pre- ; island stretched aveuss the Pacific Lagourd in the night of Neolithic No criticons by a mere render will ugly improbable having regard to tradition, to must have been sove of these continental indluses at China and the East Indies How do we account for the dis the append M Spear in part plasten to savagery? Where did it come? leve so adequate auspicion of the proven facts of science But | strongly developed. But way is on the islands" - tol, the Atlantic ¦ México, and Central Amerion. certainly no eviden for man of presumably) in any other way but i Whole families of plants sach us

trinition over the earth of the seed the closing passage of his down that I aan toign tht of the this highly developed type in the by their progression on land, the coconuts and the pineapples less bariana? What expljon book. Yes. There is more, mielt Mincere period. Mr. Spruce is The worst of this argument is that seem to be of Amerkan origin but have we to give of the animal and more than mere inaterial per towers of the human soul to weigh not a geologist and certainly no ayon will require one big continent to' have their adopted home in the plant species so similar and yet so be considered in relation to the evidence they present with biologist. Although he brings all over the earth; for every gland Old world in Malayn and Bumah, diverse in Europe and America ? questions as that which we have justice and impartiality. Imagina

in the Pacific will have to be joined the same is Fertainly try of the Could the ancestors of all these been discussing. Atlantis sleeps and utilised, is one of the most tion, vision, if rightly interpreted army of geological evidence prove his ease the witness are by to every other. Mrs. Boutledge Banson. Then brief South have crossed the sea?

beneath the sens. But net reitson in means of equil warth; nor the tells us that she listener to this chim there is al eurions fir

Why, just listen it is all salone; nor the apparatus of scholar powerful aids to historical and archeological understanding; and sondence at all convincing,

orgiment about Easter Island and ( Glyptostrobus whose nearest ally simple Pos p 11 continent ship will, in the end.seve the ability to cast an eagle glance. Why, for instance, does lær thể other Pacific Islands is the sump express of Floridi stretching right BETORS from probe her ancient ulysteries. Men "boost" Sir J. W. Dawson whose biologist wished for continuity of -Cľuxodium), Sûrely this might be | Europe to Ameriv, Could any of insight have written of sage down the avenues of the ages is, it views are discredited by many land to account for the presence of used as n-conchusive proof of a land thing be easier 7-provided you sink visions, and of stratiger super-seems to me, but one of the first | geologists hot pool-pool Prol.

snail in lands far reconnection between Florida and it again effectually. On it you can natural communications they bave steps in psychic progress." Jowett as a witness of Plato? nived." Dur frigrid bad contender | Hainan? Then again our greatest place the "Adam" from " whom | been vouchsafed regarding her that the malluses might have tra- authority on the Chinese flora tells | Cro-mungnon www sprung: the pristine life. In many quarters

original banana which had a seed : [ these huve been received with | of the the prototype of Be Egyptiari 1 scom: In some cases their content |

Most crities will admit, ilmut the ply Arguments worth anything as to the former existence of Atlantis are bilagical and geological, Is there any geologleaf evidence for a continent or huge island in the Atlantic ocean in Quaternary times for the catastrophe, which must have resulted from its sudden sab mergence? Or is there any sudden hatus in the animut and plant records after the catastrophe?

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to bus handed down a by bode number of myths, among from the story of the sunken island of Atlantis. - - Verording, to Po it must have been submisged about 900 80. Mr. Spencer shoes 1:5 of course, arvept Plato's,

Ph what They in its entirety.

we think of writer win 1ts who and her his tor: who rejects also his statement That the Atlantens hund big ships in 2000 B. at part of his Fato's] account which makes the Anin state the successful up fell f European freedom aquest the invading hordes of Artentis finust, it is clear, go by the bund

" I bave ob BONVONĚ, WO PRn scurvely credit that per of Plato's numitive which epits of Atlantis as a

part fre qurated by the world's shipping Ler nccepts the detailed areliler- ture of their capital city and even acepts as authentic the wolour:(D) | Classical selinhua's have far mure of stone out of, which, it was Taith in Piol. Jowelt than bait Could there be mure geologists have in Sir J. W.

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-A. H. CROOK, The Problem of Atlantis," by Lewis Spence, Wm. Rider and Son, Ltd, London, 10s. 6d.}.

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