In the Egyptian history, as preserved by Plato, the Deluge of Deucalion, which many things prove to have been identical with the Deluge of Noah, was the last of a series of great catastrophes.
In the Celtic legends the great Deluge of Ogyges preceded the last deluge.
In the American legends, mankind have been many times destroyed, and as often renewed.
But it may be asked:
"Are you right in supposing that man first rose to civilization in a great Atlantic island?
We can conceive, as I have shown, mankind at some central point, like the Atlantic island, building up anew, after the Drift Age, the shattered fragments of pre-glacial civilization, and hence becoming to the post-glacial ancient world the center and apparent fountain of all cultivation. But in view of the curious discoveries made, as I have shown, in the glacial clays of the United
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States, further investigations may prove that it was on the North American Continent civilization was first born, and that it was thence moved eastward over the bridge-like ridges to Atlantis.
And it is, in this connection, remarkable that the Bible tells us (Genesis, chap. ii, v. 8):
"And the Lord God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man that he had formed."