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rGNArIUs DoNNEL1Y rs An AUTHOR
A CuriousIy Interesting. Entertaining and
Valuable Work.


The above is the title of the latest literary /
sensation, work that is attracting more at
tention than any which has appeared for years. |
The book derives an especial local interest |
from the fact that Hon. Ignatlus Donnelly, of |
this State, is the author. His prominence
and we'll known attachments in public life,
render 1t certain that any work issued under
his name will be of public interest, and
valuable both for perusal and preservation. |
"Atlantis" will be found such work
and more. 1t opens 10 the public questions
for thought and study which will not be
readily laid aside or easily forgotten. AS the
best explanation of the object of the work we
quote bodily the following
OPENING CHAPTER:
This book is an attempt to demonstrate sew
eral distinct and novel propositions. These
are:
l. That there existed In the Atlantic Ocean,
opposite the mouth of the Mediterranean
Sea, large island, which was the remnant of
an Atlantic continent, and known to the
ancient world as Atlantis.
.. That the description of this island given
by Plato is not, as has been long supposed,
fable, but vertable history
8. That Atlantis was the region where man
first rose from state of barbarism to civil.
cation.
4. That it became, in the course of ages,
populous and mighty nation, from whose
overhowings the shores of the Gulf of Next.
co. the mississippi river, the Amazon, the
Pacific coast of South America, the Meditera-
mean, the west coast OF Europe and Africa,
the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Caspian,
were populated by civilized nations.
8. That it was the true Andtediluvian
%lo ~
the Hesperides; the Elysian Fields; the Gar
dens of Alcinous; the Mesomphalos the
Olympus; the Asgard of the ira
ditionS of the ancient nations; rep
resenting universal memory
of great land, where early mankind dwelt
for ages in peace and happiness.
6. That the gods and goddesses of the an
Gent Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Hindoos,
and the Scandinavians were simply the kings.
queens and heroes of Atlantis, and the acts
attributed to them in mythology are con-
fused recollection of real historical events.
Z. That the mythology of Egypt and Peru
represented the original religion of Atlantis,
which was sun. Worship
8. That the Oldest colony formed by the At
lantians, was probably in Egypt, whose civil
lZation was a reproduction of that of the At
Iantic island.
g. That the implements Of the "Bronze
Age" of Europe were derived from Atlantis.
The Atlantians were also the first manufac.
turers of iron.
10. That the Phoenican alphabet, parent
of all the European alphabets, was derived
from an Atlantis alphabet, which was also
conveyed from Atlantis to the Mayas of Gen.
trail America.
II. That Atlantis was the original seat of
the Aryan or Indo-European family of ma
tions, as well as of the Semitic peoples, and
possibly also OF Turanian races.
IL. That Atlantis persisted in q terrible con-
vulsion OF nature, in which the whole island
sank into the ocean, with nearly all its inhab-
itants.
10. That few persons escaped in ships
and on RATS, and carried to the nations east
and west the tidings of the appalling catas-
trophe, which has survived to our own time
in the flood and deuge legends of the different
nations of the old and new world.
Ii these propositions can be proved, they will
solve many problems which now perplex
mankind; they will confirm in many respects
the statements in the opening chapters of
Genesis; they will widen the area of human
history; they will explain the remarkable re-
semblances which exist between the ancient
civilizations found upon the opposite shores
of the Atlantic ocean, in the old and
new worlds; and they will aid us to rehabil-
itate the fathers of our civilization,
our blood, and our fundamental ideas-the
the Aryans descended upon India, or the
Phenicians had settled in Syria, or the Goth
had reached the shores of the Baltic.
The fact that the story of Atlantis was for
thousands of years regarded as fable proves
nothing. There is an unbelief which grows
out of ignorance, as well as a skepticism which
is born of intelligence. The people nearest to
the past are not always those who are best in
formed concerning the past For thousand
years 1t was believed that the legends of the
buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were
myths they were spoken of as "the fabulous
cities" For a thousand years the educated
world did not credit the accounts given by
Herodotus of the wonders of the ancient civili-
cation of the Nile and of Chaldea. He was
sneered at him. Now, in the language of
Frederick schlegel, "the deeper and more COM
prehensive the researches of the moderns have
been, the more their regard and esteem of
Herodotus has increased" Buckle says: "His
minute information about Egypt and Asia
Minor is admitted by all geographers."
There was time when the expedition sent
out by Pharoah Necho to circumnavigate
Africa was doubted, because the explorers
stated that after they had progressed a certain
distance the sun Was north of them; this cir
cumstance, which then aroused suspicion,
now proves to us that the Egyptian navlga-
tors had really passed the equator, and an
tlclpated by 2,lOO years VasqueZ de Gama in
his discovery of the Cape of Good Hope.
Ii succeed IN demonstrating the truth of
the somewhat startling propositions with
which commenced this chapter, it will only
be by ringing to bear upon the question of
Atlantis thousand converging lines of light
from multitude of researches made by
scholars in different fields of modern thought.
Further Investigations and discoveries will.
trust, confirm the correctness of the conclu-
sions at which have arrived.
In support of these theories MIR. Donnelly
quotes Plato's story, which shows that there
was tradition of "Atlantis" long before the
Christian era. Platos story heretofore has
been considered purely NEUROLOGICAL, and Mr..
Donnelly's fort to show that instead of q
fable it is an DER true tale is decidedly inge.
NOUS and convincing.
The various legend, Eof the deluge which
the author quotes, demonstrates the great
doubt which surrounds the generally accepted
biblical theory of the flood and gives great
plausibility to the claim that the then world
atlantis deluged by sinking beneath
the waves of the sea instead of food from
above. The evidence of geology is invoked to
sustain the claim, and unless one ia deter.
mined to blindly accept the tradition which
has come down to us through biblical