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THE HISTORY OF

ATLANTIS

LEWIS SPENCE

AUTHOR OF " THE PROBLEM OF ATLANTIS "

" ATLANTIS IN AMERICA," " THE GODS OF MEXICO," ETC.

A TLANTEAN ARMOUR (M EXICAN TYPE )

(From a figure found in a Mexican grave).

PREFACE

The History of Atlantis may, in the light of our present

knowledge of Plato's sunken island, appear as a somewhat

presumptuous title for a work, the object of which is to

present a general outline of what is known concerning

Atlantean civilisation. But it is my earnest wish to place

the study upon a scientific basis, and in so doing I attach

the description of "history" to this work in the hope

that the mere invocation of such a name will endow it

with the spirit which should inspire all histories—a desire

to arrive at fundamental truth by every available means.

The volumes which I have already published on the

subject have met with such widespread acceptance, and

for the most part with such kindly and catholic criticism,

that I am emboldened to proceed a step farther, and to

attempt to cast the evidences of Atlantean civilisation,

which I have already gathered into something resembling

a historical narrative. Such an account, I am the first

to admit, must have as many lacunae as it has facts, and

must rely in large measure upon analogy and often upon

pure surmise. But in the first chapter of this volume I

have explained my reasons for employing certain methods

of approach which may seem too unfamiliar to the his-

torian to meet with his ready acceptance.

In the present volume I have arrived at many conclu-

sions,

and

have

brought

forward

much

evidence

which

did

not appear

former

works

the

subject

Atlantis.

For

example,

have

shown

that

the

story

Atlantis, as painted upon the peplum of Pallas at the

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Preface

viii

Athenian festival, has a very definite bearing upon the

credibility of Plato's narrative, pre-dating it as it did by

more than a century. I have also demonstrated that,

so far from being mythical, the Egyptian sources from

which Plato drew his material were very real indeed, and

that he himself visited Egypt.

Again, I have, I think, thrown much new light on the

character of the Atlantean invasion of Europe, on the exact

site of Atlantis, and especially on the great amount of

evidence for the former existence of the island-continent

which survives in British and Irish folklore and tradition.

British tradition, indeed, is the touchstone of Atlantean

history, and the identification of Lyonesse with Atlantis,

and the grouping of Atlas with the British gods, Albion

and Iberius, should go far to prove the ancient association

of our islands with the sunken continent.

But it is from the acceptance of my theory of the exist-

ence of a definite Atlantean culture-complex, embodying

certain peculiar and associated customs, that I hope to

gain converts to the belief in a former widespread Atlan-

tean civilisation having cultural outposts in Western

Europe and Eastern America, and connected with the

motherland by way of the intervening islands. It is in

this theory, I feel, that the strongest case for the pre-

existence of Atlantis resides, and I confidently present

it to my readers in the certainty that they will favourably

consider a hypothesis which I devoutly believe approaches

within measurable distance of the truth.

L EWIS S PENCE .

66 Arden Street,

Edinburgh.

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