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before they were introduced into Europe." Humboldt pronounced the Peruvian 

 roads among the most useful and stupendous ever executed by man. Her vast 

 wealth and high civilization, in addition to the race and tongue similarities, give 

 her rank with ancient Egypt as a sister colony from Atlantis. The mound- 

 builders are identified with the bronze age in Europe, which age has furnished 

 perplexing problems for European scientists. A bronze age implies a pre-exist- 

 ent age of copper and tin before the art of combining them was known, but the 

 relics of such a period have not been found in Europe. Sir John Lubbock says 

 in his " Pre-historic Times" that the absence of implements made either of cop- 

 per or tin seems to mdicate that the art of making bronze was introduced into, 

 not invented, in Europe. The ancient Mexicans knew the art of making true 

 bronze. Their identity with the Mound-Builders is easily established, and both 

 are traced by their language and legends to Atlantis — hence what people but the 

 Atlanteans, whose ships, docks, canals and commerce provoked the astonishment 

 of all who felt the aggressions of their powerful and populous island, supplied all 

 Europe with bronze in the bronze age ! 



Ignatius Donnelly says that "In 6,000 years the world made no advance- 

 ment on the civilization it received from Atlantis — that modern civilization is 

 Atlantean, and the inventive faculty of the present age is but taking up the 

 thread of original thought where Atlantis dropped it thousands of years ago." 

 We stand with abated breath at the startling assertions, but the evidence gleaned 

 in their favor must be withheld, as we find, at the expiration of our time, that we 

 are but on the threshold of our subject, and to tempt you to press on and into 

 the subject, we give you a few hints of the feast that awaits you. 



''That all of the ancient civilized nations of both hemispheres were colonies 

 from Atlantis," — " the land of the master race." 



"That the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks, the Phoenicians, 

 Hindos and Scandinavians were the kings, queens, and heroes of Atlantis." 



"That Atlantis was the original seat of the Aryan or Indo-European family 

 of nations, as well as ihe Semitic and possibly the Turanians." 



"That Greek mythology is a confused recollection of real historical events." 



"That the Phoenician alphabet, the parent of all alphabets, was derived 

 from the Atlantean alphabet " and the Maya language spoken by the ancient 

 people of Yucatan is the survival of the Atlantean alphabet. 



A writer in the Scientific American says the last words of our Savior were in 

 pure Maya tongue. " Eloi, Eloi, lami sabacthani" in that tongue is, — Now, 

 now I sink; darkness comes over me." The bystanders, not understanding 

 his language, thought he was calling on the Father in his hour of trial. 



To resume : Genesis is said to contain a history of Atlantis, and that the 

 sinking of this island was the scene of the Biblical deluge. That there was no 

 gulf stream previous to this catastrophe. 



•' That this great event was the terminus of the glacial period, the barricade 

 being removed, the "land locked ocean" of the north met the heated tropical 

 waters, and produced climatic changes in Europe, and but for the mild waters of 



