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Speaker 1: Section one, The Story of Atlantis by William Scott Elliott.
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Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The Story
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Speaker 1: of Atlantis, Part one a geographical, historical, and ethnological sketch.
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Speaker 1: The general scope of the subject before us will best
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Speaker 1: be realized by considering the amount of information that is
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Speaker 1: obtainable about the various nations who compose our great fifth
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Speaker 1: or Aryan race. From the time of the Greeks and
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Speaker 1: the Romans onwards, volumes have been written about every people, who,
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Speaker 1: in their turn have filled the stage of history. The
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Speaker 1: political institutions, the religious beliefs, the social and domestic manners
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Speaker 1: and customs have all been analyzed and cataloged, and countless
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Speaker 1: works in many tongues record for our benefit the march
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Speaker 1: of progress. Further, it must be remembered that of the
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Speaker 1: history of this fifth race we possess but a fragment,
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Speaker 1: the record merely of the last family races of the
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Speaker 1: Celtic sub race and the first family races of our
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Speaker 1: own Teutonic stock, but the hundreds of thousands of years
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Speaker 1: which elapsed from the time when the earliest Arians left
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Speaker 1: their home on the shores of the Central Asian Sea
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Speaker 1: to the time of the Greeks and Romans bore witness
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Speaker 1: to the rise and fall of innumerable civilizations. Of the
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Speaker 1: first subrays of our Aryan race, who inhabited India and
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Speaker 1: colonized Egypt in prehistoric times, we know practically nothing, and
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Speaker 1: the same may be said of the Chaldian, Babylonian and
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Speaker 1: Assyrian nations who composed the second sub race. For the
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Speaker 1: fragments of knowledge obtained from the recently deciphered high aerogliphs
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Speaker 1: or cuneiform inscriptions on Egyptian tombs or Babylonian tablets can
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Speaker 1: scarcely be set to constitute history. The Persians, who belonged
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Speaker 1: to the third or Iranian sub race, have, it is true,
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Speaker 1: left a few more traces. But of the earlier civilizations
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Speaker 1: of the Celtic or fourth sub race, we have no
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Speaker 1: records at all. It is only with the rise of
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Speaker 1: the last family shoots of this Celtic stock, namely the
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Speaker 1: Greek and Roman peoples, that we come upon historic times.
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Speaker 1: In addition also to the blank period in the past,
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Speaker 1: there is the blank period in the future. Four of
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Speaker 1: the seventh sub races required to complete the history of
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Speaker 1: the Great Root race five only have so far come
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Speaker 1: into existence. Our own Teutonic or fifth sub race has
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Speaker 1: already developed many nations, but has not yet run its course,
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Speaker 1: while the sixth and seventh sub races, who will be
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Speaker 1: developed on the continents of North and South America, will
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Speaker 1: have thousands of years of history to give to the world.
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Speaker 1: In attempting, therefore, to summarize in a few pages information
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Speaker 1: about the world's progress during a period which must have
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Speaker 1: occupied at least as great a stretch of years as
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Speaker 1: the above referred to, it should be realized how slight
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Speaker 1: a sketch, this must inevitably be a record of the
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Speaker 1: world's progress during the period of the fourth or untlant
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Speaker 1: In race, must embrace the history of many nations and
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Speaker 1: register the rise and fall of many civilizations. Catastrophes, too,
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Speaker 1: on a scale, such as have not yet been experienced
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Speaker 1: during the life of our present fifth race, took place
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Speaker 1: on more than one occasion during the progress of the
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Speaker 1: Fourth The destruction of Atlantis was accomplished by a series
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Speaker 1: of catastrophes varying in character from great cataclysms in which
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Speaker 1: whole territories and populations perished to comparatively unimportant landslips such
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Speaker 1: as occur on our own costs to day. When the
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Speaker 1: destruction was once inaugurated by the first great catastrophe, there
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Speaker 1: was no intermission in the minor landslips, which continued slowly
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Speaker 1: but steadily to it away the continent. Four of the
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Speaker 1: great catastrophes stand out above the rest in magnitude. The
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Speaker 1: first took place in the Miocene Age, about eight hundred
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Speaker 1: thousand years ago. The second, which was of minor importance,
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Speaker 1: occurred about two hundred thousand years ago. The third, about
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Speaker 1: eighty thousand years ago, was a very great one. It
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Speaker 1: destroyed all that remained of the Atlantean continent, with the
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Speaker 1: exception of the island to which Plato gave the name
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Speaker 1: of Poseidonis, which in its turn was submerged in the
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Speaker 1: fourth and final Grade catastrophe of ninety five sixty four BC. Now,
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Speaker 1: the testimony of the oldest writers and of modern scientific
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Speaker 1: research alike, bear witness to the existence of an ancient
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Speaker 1: continent occupying the site of the Loss Atlantis. Before proceeding
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Speaker 1: to the consideration of the subject itself, it is proposed
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Speaker 1: cursorily to glance at the generally known sources which supply
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Speaker 1: corroborative evidence. These may be grouped into the five following classes. First,
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Speaker 1: the testimony of the deep sea surroundings. Second the distribution
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Speaker 1: of fauna and flora. Third, the similarity of language and
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Speaker 1: of ethnological type. Fourth, the similarity of religious belief, ritual
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Speaker 1: and architecture. Fifth the testimony of ancient writers, of early
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Speaker 1: raised traditions, and of archaic flood legends. In the first place,
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Speaker 1: then the testimony of the deep sea soundings may be
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Speaker 1: summarised in a few words. Thanks chiefly to the expeditions
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Speaker 1: of the British and American gun boat Challenger and Dolphin,
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Speaker 1: though Germany also was associated in the scientific exploration, the
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Speaker 1: bed of the whole Atlantic Ocean is now mapped out,
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Speaker 1: whither result that an immense bank or a reage of
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Speaker 1: great elevation is shown to exist in mid Atlantic. This
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Speaker 1: rich stretches in a southwesterly direction from about fifty degrees
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Speaker 1: north towards the coast of South America, then in a
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Speaker 1: southeasterly direction towards the coast of Africa, changing its direction
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Speaker 1: again about Ascension Island and running due south to Tristan Dankuna.
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Speaker 1: The ridge rises almost sheer about nine thousand feet from
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Speaker 1: the ocean depths around it, while the azoris sent Paul
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Speaker 1: Ascension and Tristan Dankuna are the peaks of this land
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Speaker 1: which still remain above water. A line of three thousand,
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Speaker 1: five hundred fathoms or say twenty one thousand feet is
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Speaker 1: required to sound the deepest parts of the Atlantic, but
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Speaker 1: the higher parts of the ridge are only one hundred
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Speaker 1: to a few hundred fathoms beneath the sea. The soundings,
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Speaker 1: too showed that the ridges covered with volcanic debris, of
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Speaker 1: which traces are to be found right across the ocean
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Speaker 1: to the American coasts. Indeed, the fact that the ocean bed,
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Speaker 1: particularly about the Azores, has been the sin of volcanic
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Speaker 1: disturbance on a gigantic scale, and that with an acquiet
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Speaker 1: measurable period of geologic time, is conclusively proved by the
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Speaker 1: investigations made during the above named expeditions. Mister Starkey Gardener
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Speaker 1: is of opinion that in the years scene times, the
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Speaker 1: British Islands formed part of a larger island or continent
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Speaker 1: stretching into the Atlantic, and that quote, a great tract
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Speaker 1: of land formerly existed where the sea now is. In
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Speaker 1: that cornwall, the Sely and Channel Islands, Ireland and Brittany
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Speaker 1: are the remains of its highest summits unquote, Popular Science Review,
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Speaker 1: July eighteen seventy eight. Second, the proved existence and continents
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Speaker 1: separated by grade oceans of similar or identical species of
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Speaker 1: fauna and flora is the standing puzzle to biologists and
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Speaker 1: botanists alike. But if a link between these continents once existed,
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Speaker 1: allowing for the natural migration of such animals and plants,
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Speaker 1: the puzzle is solved. Now. The fossil remains of the
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Speaker 1: camel are found in India, Africa, South America, and Kansas.
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Speaker 1: But it is one of the generally accepted hypotheses of
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Speaker 1: naturalists that every species of animal and plants and originated
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Speaker 1: in but one part of the globe, from which center
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Speaker 1: it gradually overran the other portions. How then, can the
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Speaker 1: facts of such fossil remains be accounted for without the
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Speaker 1: existence of land communication in some remote age. Recent discoveries
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Speaker 1: in the fossil beds of Nebraska seem also to prove
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Speaker 1: that the horse originated in the Western Hemisphere, for that
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Speaker 1: is the only part of the world where fossil remains
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Speaker 1: have been discovered, showing the various intermediate forms which have
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Speaker 1: been identified as the precursors of the true horse. It
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Speaker 1: would therefore be difficult to account for the presence of
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Speaker 1: the horse in Europe except on the hypothesis of continuous
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Speaker 1: land communication between the two continents. Seeing that it is
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Speaker 1: certain that the horse existed in a wild state in
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Speaker 1: Europe and Asia before his domestication by man, which may
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Speaker 1: be traced back almost to the Stone Age, cattle and
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Speaker 1: sheep as we now know them have an equally remote ancestry.
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Speaker 1: Darwin finds domesticated cattle in US Europe in the earliest
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Speaker 1: part of the Stone Age, having long before developed out
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Speaker 1: of wild forms akin to the buffalo of America. Remains
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Speaker 1: of the cave lion of Europe are also found in
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Speaker 1: North America. Turning now from the animal to the vegetable kingdom,
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Speaker 1: it appears that the greater part of the flora of
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Speaker 1: the Miocene Age in Europe, found chiefly in the fossil
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Speaker 1: beds of Switzerland, existed the present day in America, some
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Speaker 1: of them in Africa. But the noteworthy fact about America
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Speaker 1: is that while the greater proportion are to be found
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Speaker 1: in the Eastern States, very many are wanting on the
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Speaker 1: Pacific coast. This seems to show that it was from
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Speaker 1: the Atlantic side that they entered the continent. Professor Asa
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Speaker 1: Gray says that out of sixty six genera and one
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five species found in the forest east
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Speaker 1: of the Rocky Mountains, only thirty one genera and seventy
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Speaker 1: eight species are found west of these heights. But the
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Speaker 1: greatest problem of ol the plantain or banana. Professor Kunz,
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Speaker 1: an eminent German botanist, asks in what way was this plant?
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Speaker 1: A native of tropical Asia and Africa which cannot stand
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Speaker 1: a voyage through the temperate zone carriage to America? As
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Speaker 1: he points out, the plant is seedless, It cannot be
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Speaker 1: propagated by cuttings. Neither has it a tuber which could
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Speaker 1: be easily transported. Its root is treelike. To transport it,
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Speaker 1: special care would be required, nor could it stand along transit.
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Speaker 1: The only way in which he can account for its
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Speaker 1: appearance in America is to suppose that it must have
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Speaker 1: been transported by civilized man at a time when the
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Speaker 1: polar regions had a tropical climate. He adds, a cultivated
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Speaker 1: plant which does not possess seeds must have been under
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Speaker 1: culture for a very long period. It is perhaps fair
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Speaker 1: to infer that these plants were cultivated as early as
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Speaker 1: the begining of the diluvial period. Why, it may be asked,
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Speaker 1: should not this inference take us back to still earlier times,
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Speaker 1: and where did the civilization necessary for the plant's cultivation exist,
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Speaker 1: or the climate and circumstances requisite for its transportation, unless
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Speaker 1: there were at some time a link between the old
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Speaker 1: world and the new. Professor Wallace in his Delightful Island Life,
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Speaker 1: as well as other writers in many important works, has
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Speaker 1: put forward ingenious hypothesis to account for the identity of
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Speaker 1: flora and fauna on widely separated lands, and for the
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Speaker 1: transit across the ocean. But all are unconvincing, and all
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Speaker 1: break down at different points. It is well known that
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Speaker 1: wheat as we know it has never existed in a
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Speaker 1: truly wild state, nor is there any evidence tracing its
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Speaker 1: descent from fossil species. Five varieties of wheat were already
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Speaker 1: cultivated in Europe in the Stone Age, one variety found
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Speaker 1: in the Lake dwellings, being known as Egyptian wheat, from
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Speaker 1: which Darwin argues that the lake dwellers either still kept
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Speaker 1: up commercial intercourse with some southern people, or had originally
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Speaker 1: proceeded as colonists from the south. He concludes that wheat, barley, oats,
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Speaker 1: and so on are descended from various species now extinct
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Speaker 1: or so widely different as to escape identification, in which
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Speaker 1: case he says, Man must have cultivated cereals from an
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Speaker 1: enormously remote period. The regions where these extinct species flourished
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Speaker 1: and the civilization under which they were cultivated by intelligent selection,
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Speaker 1: are both supplied by the lost continent, whose colonists carried
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Speaker 1: them east and west. Third, from the fauna and flora,
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Speaker 1: we now turn to Man language. The Basque language stands
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Speaker 1: alone amongst European tongs, having affinity with none of them.
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Speaker 1: According to Farrar quote, there never has been any doubt
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Speaker 1: that this isolated language, preserving its identity in the western
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Speaker 1: corner of Europe between two mighty kingdoms, resembles in its
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Speaker 1: structure the aboriginal languages of the vast opposite continent America,
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Speaker 1: and those alone en families of speech, page one hundred
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Speaker 1: thirty two. The Phoenicians apparently were the first nation in
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Speaker 1: the Eastern hemisphere to use a phonetic alphabet. The characters
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Speaker 1: being regarded as mere signs for sounds. It is a
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Speaker 1: curious fact that, at an equally early date we find
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Speaker 1: a phonetic alphabet in Central America, amongst the Mayans of Yucatan,
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Speaker 1: whose traditions ascribe the origin of their civilization to a
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Speaker 1: land across the sea to the east. Les Plon John,
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Speaker 1: the great authority on this subject, rites one third of
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Speaker 1: this tongue. The Maya is pure Greek? Who brought the
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Speaker 1: dialect of Homer to America? Or who took to Greece?
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Speaker 1: That of the mayas Greek? Is the offspring of the
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Speaker 1: sanskrit is Maya or are they coeval? Still more surprising
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Speaker 1: is it to find thirteen letters out of the Maya
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Speaker 1: alphabet bearing most distinct relation to the Egyptian hieroglyphic signs
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Speaker 1: for the same letters. It is probable that the earliest
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Speaker 1: form of alphabet was hieroglyphic, the writing of the gods,
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Speaker 1: as the Egyptians called it, and that it developed later
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Speaker 1: in Atlantis into the phonetic. It would be natural to
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Speaker 1: assume that the Egyptians were an early colony from Atlantis,
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Speaker 1: as they actually were, and that they carried away with
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Speaker 1: them the primitive type of writing, which has thus left
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Speaker 1: its traces on both hemispheres, while the Phoenicians, who were
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Speaker 1: a sea going people, obtained and assimilated the later form
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Speaker 1: of alphabet during their trading voyages with the people of
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Speaker 1: the West. One more point may be noticed, namely the
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Speaker 1: extraordinary resemblance between many words in the Hebrew language and
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Speaker 1: words bearing precisely the same meaning in the tongue of
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Speaker 1: the chiapan x a branch of the Maya race and
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Speaker 1: among the most ancient in Central America. A list of
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Speaker 1: these words is given in North Americans of Antiquity, page
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Speaker 1: four hundred seventy five. The similarity of language among the
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Speaker 1: various savage races of the Pacific Islands has been used
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Speaker 1: as an argument by writers on this subject. The existence
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Speaker 1: of similar languages among races separated by leagues of ocean
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Speaker 1: across which in historic time they are known to have
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Speaker 1: had no means of transport, is certainly an argument in
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Speaker 1: favor of their descent from a single race occupying a
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Speaker 1: single continent. But the argument cannot be used here, for
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Speaker 1: the continent in question was not Atlantis, but the still
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Speaker 1: earlier Limuria. Ethnological types Atlantis, as we shall see, is
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Speaker 1: said to have been inhabited by red, yellow, white, and
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Speaker 1: black races. It is now proved by the researches of
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Speaker 1: Le's Plan, Jehan, the Ca Defarge, Bancroft, and others that
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Speaker 1: black populations of Negroid type existed even up to recent
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Speaker 1: times in America. Many of the monuments of Central America
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Speaker 1: decorated with Negro faces, and some of the idols found
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Speaker 1: there are clearly intended to represent Negros with small skulls,
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Speaker 1: short wooly hair, and thick lips. The popol Vu, speaking
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Speaker 1: of the first home of the Guatemalan race, says that
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Speaker 1: black and white men together lived in this happy land
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Speaker 1: in great peace, speaking one language Sea Bancrofts Native Races,
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Speaker 1: page five hundred forty seven. The popol Vu goes on
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Speaker 1: to relate how the people migrated from their ancestral home,
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Speaker 1: how their language became altered, and how some went to
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Speaker 1: the East while others traveled west to Central America. Professor Regis,
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Speaker 1: in his Smithsonian Report, considers that the primitive Dollihote falet
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Speaker 1: of America are nearly related to the Guanches of the
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Speaker 1: Canary Islands and to the population of the Atlantic Sea.
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Speaker 1: Board of Africa, which allow them comprises under the name
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Speaker 1: of Egyptian Atlantide. The same form of skull is found
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Speaker 1: in the Canary Islands off the African coast and the
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Speaker 1: carib Islands of the American coast, while the color of
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Speaker 1: the skin in both is that of a reddish brown.
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Speaker 1: The ancient Egyptians depicted themselves as red men of much
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Speaker 1: the same complexion as exists today among some tribes of
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Speaker 1: American Indians. The ancient Peruvians, says Short, appear, from numerous
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Speaker 1: examples of hair found in their tombs, to have been
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Speaker 1: an auburn haired race. A remarkable fact about the American Indians,
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Speaker 1: and one which is a stunding puzzle to ethnologists, is
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Speaker 1: the wide range of color and complexion to be found
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Speaker 1: among them. From the white tint of the Menomini, Dakota, Mandan,
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Speaker 1: and Zuni tribes, many of whom have all burn hair
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Speaker 1: and blue eyes, to the almost negro blackness of the
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Speaker 1: Karas of Kansas and the now extinct tribes of California.
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Speaker 1: The Indian races run through every shade of red, brown, copper, olive, cinnamon,
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Speaker 1: and bronze. Sea shorts. North Americans of Antiquity, Winchells, Preadamites,
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Speaker 1: and Katlin's Indians of North America. See also Atlantis by
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Speaker 1: Ignatius Donnelly, who has collected a great mass of evidence.
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Speaker 1: Under this and other heads, we shall see by and
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Speaker 1: by how the diversity of complexion on the American continent
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Speaker 1: is accounted for by the original raistings of the parent
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Speaker 1: continent of Atlantis. Fourth, nothing seems to have surprised the
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Speaker 1: first Spanish adventurers in Mexico and Peru more than the
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Speaker 1: extraordinary similarity to those of the Old World of the
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Speaker 1: religious beliefs, riots, and emblems which they found established in
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Speaker 1: the New. The Spanish priests regarded the similarity as the
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Speaker 1: work of the devil. The worship of the cross by
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Speaker 1: the natives, and its constant presence in all religious buildings
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Speaker 1: and ceremonies, was the principal subject of their amazement, and indeed,
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Speaker 1: nor were not even in Indian Egypt was this symbol
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Speaker 1: held in more profound veneration than amongst the primitive tribes
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Speaker 1: of the American continents. While the meaning underlying its worship
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Speaker 1: was identical in the West as in the East, the
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Speaker 1: cross was the symbol of life, sometimes of life physical,
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Speaker 1: more often of life eternal in like manner. In both hemispheres,
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Speaker 1: the worship of the sun, disk or circle, and of
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Speaker 1: the serpent was universal. And more surprising still is the
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Speaker 1: similarity of the word signifying God in the principal languages
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Speaker 1: of East and West. Compare the Sanskrit Diaos or Diaus Peter,
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Speaker 1: the Greek theos and zeus, the Latin Daus and Jupiter,
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Speaker 1: the Celtic Dea and Ta pronounced Thia, seeming to bear
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Speaker 1: affinity to the Egyptian Tao, the Jewish ja or ya,
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Speaker 1: and lastly the Mexican Teo or Zaio. Baptismal riots were
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Speaker 1: practiced by all nations. In Babylon and Egypt, the candidates
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Speaker 1: for initiation in the mysteries were first baptized. Tertullian, in
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Speaker 1: his De Baptismo, says that they were promised in consequence
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Speaker 1: regeneration and the pardon of all their perjuries. The Scandinavian
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Speaker 1: nations practice baptism of newborn children, and when we turned
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Speaker 1: to Mexico and Peru, we find infant baptism there as
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Speaker 1: a solemn ceremonial consisting of water spriggling, the sign of
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Speaker 1: the Cross, and prayers for the washing away of scene sea, Humboldts,
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Speaker 1: Mexican Researchers, and Prescott's Mexico. In addition to baptism, the
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Speaker 1: tribes of Mexico, Central American and Peru resemble the nations
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Speaker 1: of the Old World in their rites of confession, absolution, fasting,
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Speaker 1: and marriage before priests by joining hands. They had even
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Speaker 1: a ceremony resembling the Euharist, in which cakes marked with
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Speaker 1: the tao, an Egyptian form of cross were eaten, the
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Speaker 1: people calling them the flesh of their God. These exactly
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Speaker 1: resemble the sacred cakes of Egypt and other Eastern nations.
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Speaker 1: Like these nations, too, the people of the New World
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Speaker 1: had monastic orders male and female, in which broken vows
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Speaker 1: were punished with death. Like the Egyptians, they involved their
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Speaker 1: dead their worshiped Sun, Moon, and planets. But over and
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Speaker 1: above these adored a deity omnipresent, who knoweth all things invisible, incorporeal,
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Speaker 1: one God of perfect perfection see Sagoons Historia de Nueva Espana,
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Speaker 1: book six. They too had their virgin mother, Goddess our Lady,
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Speaker 1: whose son, the Lord of Light, was called the Savior,
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Speaker 1: bearing an accurate correspondence to Isis, Beltis and the many
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Speaker 1: other virgin goddesses of the East with their divine sons.
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Speaker 1: Their rites of sun and fire worship closely resembled those
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Speaker 1: of the early Celts of Britain and Ireland, and like
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Speaker 1: the latter, they claimed to be the children of the Sun.
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Speaker 1: An ark or arga was one of the universal sacred
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Speaker 1: symbols which we find alike in India, Chaldaea, Assyria, Egypt, Greece,
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Speaker 1: and amongst the Celtic peoples. Lord Kingsborough, in his Mexican Antiquities,
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Speaker 1: Volume eight, page two hundred fifty says as among the Jews,
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Speaker 1: the ark was a sort of portable temple in which
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Speaker 1: the deity was supposed to be continually present. So among
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Speaker 1: the Mexicans, the Cherokees, and the Indians of Michevacan and Honduras,
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Speaker 1: an ark was held in the highest veneration and was
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Speaker 1: considered an object too sacred to be touched by any
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Speaker 1: but the priests. As to religious architecture, we find on
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Speaker 1: both sides of the Atlantic that one of the earliest
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Speaker 1: secret buildings is the pyramid. Doubtful, as are the uses
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Speaker 1: for which these structures were originally intended. One thing is
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Speaker 1: clear that they were closely connected with some religious idea
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Speaker 1: or group of ideas. The identity of design in the
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Speaker 1: pyramids of Egypt in those of Mexico and Central America
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Speaker 1: is too striking to be America incidence. True, some the
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Speaker 1: greater number of the American pyramids are of the truncated
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Speaker 1: or flattened form. Yet according to Bancroft and others, many
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Speaker 1: of those found in Yucatan, and notably those near Plenke,
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Speaker 1: are pointed at the top in true Egyptian fashion, while
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Speaker 1: on the other hand we have some of the Egyptian
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Speaker 1: pyramids of the stepped and flattened type. Cholula has been
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Speaker 1: compared to the groups of Dahor Sakara and the steppe
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Speaker 1: pyramid of Medor alike in orientation, in structure, and even
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Speaker 1: in their internal galleries and chambers. These mysterious monuments of
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Speaker 1: the East and of the West stunt as witnesses to
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Speaker 1: some common source, whence their builders dur their plan. The
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Speaker 1: vast remains of cities and temples in Mexico and Yugotan
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Speaker 1: also strangely resemble those of Egypt. The ruins of Therty,
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Speaker 1: who black and having frequently been compared to those of Karnak.
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Speaker 1: The falls arch horizontal courses of stone, each slightly overlapping
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Speaker 1: the other, is found to be identical in Central America,
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Speaker 1: in the oldest buildings of Greece, and in etruscan Remains.
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Speaker 1: The mound builders of both Eastern and Western continents formed
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Speaker 1: similar tumuli of their dead and laid the bodies in
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Speaker 1: similar stone coffins. Both continents have their great serpent mounds,
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Speaker 1: compared that of Adam's Company Ohio, with the fine serpent
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Speaker 1: mound dis covered in Algiershire or the less perfect specimen
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Speaker 1: at Avebury in Wills. The very carving and decoration of
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Speaker 1: the temples of America, Egypt, and India have much in common,
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Speaker 1: while some of the mural decorations are absolutely identical and
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