ATLANTIS: THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD: A MODERN REVISED EDITION; Illustrated
New York: Gramercy Publishing Co., 1949. Revised. Hardcover. Octavo Blue cloth-over-boards (8 1/4 in. x 5 1/2 in.). Black lettering to spine. Photographs, a map and reference notes at rear.
"This book is an attempt to demonstrate several distinct and novel propositions. These are:
1. That there once existed in the Atlantic Ocean, opposite the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea, a large island, which was
remnant of an Atlantic continent, and known to the ancient world as Atlantis.
2. That the description of this island given by Plato is not, as has been long supposed, fable, but veritable history.
3. That Atlantis was the region where man first rose from a state of barbarism to civilization.
4. That it became, in the course of ages, a populous and mighty nation, from whose overflowings the shores of the
Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River, The Amazon, the Pacific coast of South America, the Mediterranean,
the west coast of Europe and Africa, the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Caspian were populated by civilized nations.
5. That it was the true Antediluvian world; the Garden of Eden...
6. That the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Hindus, and the Scandinavians were
simply the kings, queens and heroes of Atlantis, and the acts attributed to them in mythology, a confused
recollection of real historical events.
7. That the mythologies of Egypt and Peru represented the original religion of Atlantis, which was sun-worship.
8. That the oldest colony formed by Atlanteans was probably in Egypt, whose civilization was a reproduction
of that of the Atlantic island.
9. That the implements of the 'Bronze Age' of Europe were derived from Atlantis...
10. That the Phoenician alphabet, parent of all the European alphabets, was derived from anb Atlantis alphabet,
was also conveyed from Atlantis to the Mayas of Central America.
11. That Atlantis was the original seart of the Aryan or Indo-European family of nations, as well as of the Semitic
peoples...
12. That Atlantis perished in a terrible convulsion of nature, in which the whole island was submerged by the ocean,
with nearly all its inhabitants.
13. That a few persons escaped in ships and on rafts, and carried to the nations east and west the tidings
of the appalling catastrophe, which has survived to our own time in the Flood and Deluge legends of the
different nations of the Old and New worlds..."
(from Chapter 1: The Purpose of This Book). Good. Item #100469
"Ignatius J. Donnelly, the author of two of the most important books in the history of Atlantean research during the last hundred years, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882) and Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (New York: Applleton & Co., 1883, was one of the many liberal intellectuals which and Anglo-Saxon world produced in the nineteenth century, in what may well have been the last outburst of learning before it was swamped with mediocrity. This was shown, not by the fact that his ideas were not those of his contemporaries, but by the greater indluence which he exercised on the thought of the United States in particular and on that of the European culture complex in general.¶. Of his early life the relvant details are well known; how he studied law but preferred poetry; how he married and later seg out to build a city, to be called Nininger City on the west bank of the Mississippi, and failed, after prodigious efforts, owing to the panic of 1857. All these were but stepping stones in his mental development, which first made itself obvious when, after many years as a Republican congressman, his party finding him unresponsive to pressure finally caused his retirement...Donnelly wound up his eclectic career by becoming the chief figure in the Populist Party, which in the 1891 elections polled ten per cent of the votes, securing slightly over a million votes..." (from Foreword by Egerton Sykes)
Ignatius Donnelly is the father of modern Atlantology,
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