It was Plate who frst gave the Western world its tradition of Atlan= tis, in two of his Dialogues. Deseribing in his "Timaous" a. visit of wise Solon to Eaypt he says: nat nor Wht Gomtpatrien dawned upon Solon that neither Gkplained "this Iphoraney "by we fact that varlets" éntastrophies. such "as Hoot ud earthquakes, had, destroyed the memory. of the past," "aloreove Added the? priest; Paovetitnes Biel fo the ne rela?
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fla very true one, ait obi ston ra hal Cromagnon man originated in Atlan-tis. The fact that the Americans looked for Quetzaleoatl and other re~ formers to come from the east is used to give them too an Atlantean origin. The diffysionist historians who hold that all culture has had a common origin thus find an advocate in Colo nel Braghine, though his ideas of the nature of that diffusion might be quite at variance with theirs. The twenty-five photographic illustrations given in the book are chosen to support this theory of an ancient eullural contact in which the lost continent of Atlantis played its part.
The Farther East 1 must be admited tt Colon! indi "puments'ahow. weak Bae a tints Be saura Here "ope arti A Rrente'te Japan "and. fe "pene sie Soi th, a movement of the heave destruction of millions of lives. After periodically. "causing the these eatgelyons mankind lapses gain ino' barbarity" and. forgets the art turin "The Athenians Gemember whist nave been aeverat:
Ju his "Critas" Plate ives details near the Pillars says that Atlas, the son of Poseidon, was its first king; he describes It as rich invaluable trees, fertile plains, various metals. "But the gods became angry at the pride of the Atlanteans and: their practice of Black Magic, and caused Atlantis to sink Into the ocean
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