The Story of Atlantis

A Geographical, Historical and Ethnological Sketch.

The general scope of the subject before us will best be realized byconsidering the amount of information that is obtainable about thevarious nations who compose our great Fifth or Aryan Race.From the time of the Greeks and the Romans onwards volumes have beenwritten about every people who in their turn have filled the stage ofhistory.

The political institutions, the religious beliefs, the socialand domestic manners and customs have all been analyzed andcatalogued, and countless works in many tongues record for our benefitthe march of progress.Further, it must be remembered that of the history of this Fifth Racewe possess but a fragment--the record merely of the last family racesof the Keltic sub-race, and the first family races of our own Teutonicstock.

But the hundreds of thousands of years which elapsed from the timewhen the earliest Aryans left their home on the shores of the centralAsian Sea to the time of the Greeks and Romans, bore witness to therise and fall of innumerable civilizations.

Of the 1st sub-race of ourAryan Race who inhabited India and colonial Egypt in prehistoric timeswe know practically nothing, and the same may be said of the Chaldean,Babylonian, and Assyrian nations who composed the 2nd sub-race--forthe fragments of knowledge obtained from the recently decipheredhieroglyphs or cuneiform inscriptions on Egyptian tombs or Babyloniantablets can scarcely be said to constitute history.

The Persians whobelonged to the 3rd or Iranian sub-race have it is true, left a fewmore traces, but of the earlier civilizations of the Keltic or 4thsub-race we have no records at all. It is only with the rise of thelast family shoots of this Keltic stock, _viz._, the Greek and Romanpeoples, that we come upon historic times.