Again, I have, I think, thrown much new light on the character of the Atlantean invasion of Europe, on the exact site of Atlantis, and especially on the great amount of evidence for the former existence of the island-continent which survives in British and Irish folklore and tradition.

I have also demonstrated that, so far from being mythical, the Egyptian sources from which Plato drew his material were very real indeed, and that he himself visited Egypt. For example, I have shown that the story of Atlantis, as painted upon the peplum of Pallas at the viiĪthenian festival, has a very definite bearing upon the credibility of Plato's narrative, pre-dating it as it did by more than a century. In the present volume I have arrived at many conclusions, and have brought forward much evidence which did not appear in my former works on the subject of Atlantis. But in the first chapter of this volume I have explained my reasons for employing certain methods of approach which may seem too unfamiliar to the historian to meet with his ready acceptance. Such an account, I am the first to admit, must have as many lacunae as it has facts, and must rely in large measure upon analogy and often upon pure surmise.

The volumes which I have already published on the subject have met with such widespread acceptance, and for the most part with such kindly and catholic criticism, that I am emboldened to proceed a step farther, and to attempt to cast the evidences of Atlantean civilisation, which I have already gathered into something resembling a historical narrative. But it is my earnest wish to place the study upon a scientific basis, and in so doing I attach the description of 'history' to this work in the hope that the mere invocation of such a name will endow it with the spirit which should inspire all histories-a desire to arrive at fundamental truth by every available means. PREFACE The History of Atlantis may, in the light of our present knowledge of Plato's sunken island, appear as a somewhat presumptuous title for a work, the object of which is to present a general outline of what is known concerning Atlantean civilisation. ' ATLANTIS IN AMERICA,' ' THE GODS OF MEXICO,' ETC.ĪTLANTEAN ARMOUR (MEXICAN TYPE) (From a figure found in a Mexican grave).

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