62 Actual Races in History. 



the poverty-stricken archives of prehistoric evolu- 

 tion. And as to Mr. Darwin, he is inimitable in his 

 unfailing humility and sweet naivete, when, alluding 

 to the unhappy poverty of facts to favor his doc- 

 trine, he says that doubtless the proofs are buried 

 deep beneath the waves, in continents submerged, 

 and so forth; and he continues: " This manner of 

 treating the question diminishes the difficulties 

 considerably, if it does not cause them to disappear 

 entirely." 



67. Gentlest suavity of guileless humanity! Ah! 

 that bosom of the deep Atlantic, how dear do even 



those chilly depths become, if only the 

 etaiii?™ in beloved object may still be there! How 



many treasures, — to quote the tragic poet 

 — besides the son of York, are in the bosom of the 

 ocean buried ! Wrecked, not on the Goodwin sands, 

 but on the sands of time, of hypothetical times and 

 times, a continent lies there, and an hypothesis, 

 nestling in the heart of a fossil continent! You 

 have heard the pathetic episode. Now listen to 

 the tragic palinode. The expedition of the " Chal- 

 lenger/' sent out by the British government, pub- 

 lishes in its late reports that no such continent as 

 an Atlantis ever existed! Is that so? Really, is a 

 watery grave refused to the man-ape and his fugi- 

 tive hypothesis, when they begged for nothing more 

 than the cold hospitality of a five-mile depth in the 

 ocean? It is even so! Mr. John Murray, speaking 

 with all scientific authority upon this oceanic ques- 



