Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-09-22
Russell e Weston.

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pertness in deep sea soundings has
| given us no new light on Atlantis. And
yet we cling to the old story, ana are
| loath to turn from the spectacle OF a
| continent in the agOnieS or 4 Matery
burial or to take down from the walls
Of our brain cells the pictures Of a
| submerged world in which sea moss
/ trails over and around great temples
and monuments. More than half the
world believes that there is a lost At
lantis. The Egyptians believed so.
long before Platos day. It is in the
mouth OF an Egyptian priest. talking
70 Scion, that Plato puts the descrip-
ton Of the vanished island. That de-
scription makes of Atlantis a land
/ larger than the Texas Of today. The
Greek philosopher located it off the
shores Of North Africa, a little to the
4 southwest Of Gibraltar. The Plltoniau
! description Of the interior of the AT
/ laHtis Of ancient times is SURPRISINGLY
I beautiful. but not more 80 than the
rare imaginative power with which
/ Plato writes, of the country ana its
! people a most fabulous ana engaging
/ history.
tAll inns, ~ course. Is tn" work Of
/ pure fancy, ana only important. be
/ yond the fact that it j. the work Of
| Plato. as showing how deeply the con
/ viction had taken hold upon the mind
/ M that age that the sea had taken
away Il lana which the ancients knew
/ AS the western shore IF the Atlantic
I ocean. ana had leit nothing but a
I b"undl"ss waste ~ waters west Of
/ Europe. Spectators have located the
I lost Atlantis near tine Canary islands,
/ end these islands ar. in fact, supposed
I in be tn" remnants "a the lost CON
/ tiucnt. There iS positively nothing
/ tangible upon which to hang the story
uf thc lost Atlantis But like most
! t~aiiti us which persist in living on.
aft"r thn world has grown too practi-
,1' " nav" any rs" for them. i has.
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