Atlantis:
“Do you believe there ever was such a country as Atlantis?”
“Most certainly,” was his quiet, decisive answer.
“But you do not think it possible that a whole continent could disappear so utterly beneath the waves as that is said to have done, leaving no more trace of its former existence than has been the case with that?”
“And why does this seem impossible to you? Does history know anything of the city that stood under ancient Troy. Who knows who were the builders or what the design of the Pyramids of Egypt? Who can tell of the cities lying strata upon strata in the valley of the Nile? In your own country, who can tell anything of the Mound Builders?
What does the world know of Palmyra, of Babylon, or of the great cities in the Valley of the Euphrates? But for the accessibility of their ruins, they would by this time have been as thoroughly forgotten as Atlantis now is.”
W.P. Phelon – “Our Story of Atlantis”