This book features three books -classics- with the main subject of Atlantis.
The first, probably the best work on the subject, and the best investigated one. Atlantis, the antediluvian world, was a work by American writer and politician Ignatius Donelly. One of the ongoing debates in the study of prehistory, ancient history and the history of religions has to do with the origin of symbols, life-ways and artifacts. Do similarities mean: a) transmission from one culture to another, b) an archetypal substratum common to humans, or c) mere coincidence? Donnelly presupposes the answer is a), and sees such correspondences between early cultures as evidence of a common source which he associates with Plato's Atlantis. And he writes an impressive document, still valid today, to prove it.
The second book, Atlantis, The Lost Continent by C.J.CUTTCLIFFE HYNE, is the finest tale ever written about Atlantis, a fiery saga of the last days of the doomed land. Atlantis, at the height of its power and glory, is without equal. It has established far-flung colonies in Egypt and Central America, and its mighty navies patrol the seas. The priests of Atlantis channel the elemental powers of the universe, and a powerful monarch rules from a staggeringly beautiful city of pyramids and shining temples clustered around a sacred mountain...
Finally, Bacon "The New Atlantis", published after the author's death, is a vivid a picture of his tastes and aspirations of the plan of an ideal commonwealth. The generosity and enlightenment, the dignity and splendor, the piety and public spirit, of the inhabitants of Bensalem represent the ideal qualities which Bacon the statesman desired rather than hoped to see characteristic of his own country; and in Solomon's House we have Bacon the scientist indulging without restriction his prophetic vision of the future of human knowledge... A beautiful piece which contain valuable elements of suggestion and stimulus for the future.
The first, probably the best work on the subject, and the best investigated one. Atlantis, the antediluvian world, was a work by American writer and politician Ignatius Donelly. One of the ongoing debates in the study of prehistory, ancient history and the history of religions has to do with the origin of symbols, life-ways and artifacts. Do similarities mean: a) transmission from one culture to another, b) an archetypal substratum common to humans, or c) mere coincidence? Donnelly presupposes the answer is a), and sees such correspondences between early cultures as evidence of a common source which he associates with Plato's Atlantis. And he writes an impressive document, still valid today, to prove it.
The second book, Atlantis, The Lost Continent by C.J.CUTTCLIFFE HYNE, is the finest tale ever written about Atlantis, a fiery saga of the last days of the doomed land. Atlantis, at the height of its power and glory, is without equal. It has established far-flung colonies in Egypt and Central America, and its mighty navies patrol the seas. The priests of Atlantis channel the elemental powers of the universe, and a powerful monarch rules from a staggeringly beautiful city of pyramids and shining temples clustered around a sacred mountain...
Finally, Bacon "The New Atlantis", published after the author's death, is a vivid a picture of his tastes and aspirations of the plan of an ideal commonwealth. The generosity and enlightenment, the dignity and splendor, the piety and public spirit, of the inhabitants of Bensalem represent the ideal qualities which Bacon the statesman desired rather than hoped to see characteristic of his own country; and in Solomon's House we have Bacon the scientist indulging without restriction his prophetic vision of the future of human knowledge... A beautiful piece which contain valuable elements of suggestion and stimulus for the future.
