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:''This vast power, gathered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits; and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind. She was pre-eminent in courage and military skill, and was the leader of the Hellenes. And when the rest fell off from her, being compelled to stand alone, after having undergone the very extremity of danger, she defeated and triumphed over the invaders, and preserved from slavery those who were not yet subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of us who dwell within the pillars.''

:''This vast power, gathered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits; and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind. She was pre-eminent in courage and military skill, and was the leader of the Hellenes. And when the rest fell off from her, being compelled to stand alone, after having undergone the very extremity of danger, she defeated and triumphed over the invaders, and preserved from slavery those who were not yet subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of us who dwell within the pillars.''

:''But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.'' [http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html]

:''But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.''<ref>http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html</ref>

===''Critias''===

===''Critias''===

Critias goes on to tell of the island itself, how it had a broad plain with mountains to the north; ditches to divert water from the mountains to the city; sumptuous palaces and buildings.  But in the last paragraph, Critias tells of the virtue posed and honored by the Atlanteans had left them, and Zeus is set on preparing a punishment:

Critias goes on to tell of the island itself, how it had a broad plain with mountains to the north; ditches to divert water from the mountains to the city; sumptuous palaces and buildings.  But in the last paragraph, Critias tells of the virtue posed and honored by the Atlanteans had left them, and Zeus is set on preparing a punishment:

:''...but when the divine portion began to fade away, and became diluted too often and too much with the mortal admixture, and the human nature got the upper hand, they then, being unable to bear their fortune, behaved unseemly, and to him who had an eye to see grew visibly debased, for they were losing the fairest of their precious gifts; but to those who had no eye to see the true happiness, they appeared glorious and blessed at the very time when they were full of avarice and unrighteous power. Zeus, the god of gods, who rules according to law, and is able to see into such things, perceiving that an honourable race was in a woeful plight, and wanting to inflict punishment on them, that they might be chastened and improve, collected all the gods into their most holy habitation, which, being placed in the centre of the world, beholds all created things. And when he had called them together, he spake as follows...'' (here ''Critias'' ends) [http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/critias.html]

:''...but when the divine portion began to fade away, and became diluted too often and too much with the mortal admixture, and the human nature got the upper hand, they then, being unable to bear their fortune, behaved unseemly, and to him who had an eye to see grew visibly debased, for they were losing the fairest of their precious gifts; but to those who had no eye to see the true happiness, they appeared glorious and blessed at the very time when they were full of avarice and unrighteous power. Zeus, the god of gods, who rules according to law, and is able to see into such things, perceiving that an honourable race was in a woeful plight, and wanting to inflict punishment on them, that they might be chastened and improve, collected all the gods into their most holy habitation, which, being placed in the centre of the world, beholds all created things. And when he had called them together, he spake as follows...'' (here ''Critias'' ends)<ref>http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/critias.html</ref>

==Later accounts==

==Later accounts==

===Francis Bacon===

===Francis Bacon===

In 1626 Francis Bacon published ''The New Atlantis'', which was essentially a tale of a ship lost in the Pacific Ocean, and by chance comes upon a hidden, advanced civilization on the island of Bensalem.  The governor in the story recounts the history of the island's original inhabitants, the history and fate of Atlantis, as well as the scientific advancements in his own land, led by a college Saloman's House. [http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm] Although not explicitly named, the concept of an enlightened "utopia" is prevalent in Bacon's work, influencing stories such as James Hilton's ''Lost Horizon'', B.F. Skinner's ''Walden Two'', and James Curney's ''Dinotopia''.

In 1626 Francis Bacon published ''The New Atlantis'', which was essentially a tale of a ship lost in the Pacific Ocean, and by chance comes upon a hidden, advanced civilization on the island of Bensalem.  The governor in the story recounts the history of the island's original inhabitants, the history and fate of Atlantis, as well as the scientific advancements in his own land, led by a college Saloman's House.<ref>http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm</ref> Although not explicitly named, the concept of an enlightened "utopia" is prevalent in Bacon's work, influencing stories such as James Hilton's ''Lost Horizon'', B.F. Skinner's ''Walden Two'', and James Curney's ''Dinotopia''.

===Charles de Bourbourg===

===Charles de Bourbourg===

===Ignatius Donnelly===

===Ignatius Donnelly===

Ignatius Loyola Donnelly, a [[Minnesota]] writer, populist, state legislator and United States Congressman, was fascinated by the tales of Atlantis as postulated by de Bourbourg.  Going several steps further, Donnelly set out to prove the existence of Atlantis as a fact with his 1882 best-seller ''Atlantis: The Antediluvian World'' [http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ataw/index.htm], which stimulated popular interest in Atlantis during the following century.  Using the science of the times, Donnelly made a serious attempt to explain that Atlantis was the "mother culture" of all civilization; that there was a connection between the mythical country of "Aztlan" of the Aztecs and Atlantis; and that the Aryan race which settled in the Punjab of India were direct descendants of Atlanteans [http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ataw/ataw510.htm].  Largely debunked over the years, Donnelly's ''Atlantis'' still maintains a following among New-Agers and spiritualists.

Ignatius Loyola Donnelly, a [[Minnesota]] writer, populist, state legislator and United States Congressman, was fascinated by the tales of Atlantis as postulated by de Bourbourg.  Going several steps further, Donnelly set out to prove the existence of Atlantis as a fact with his 1882 best-seller ''Atlantis: The Antediluvian World''<ref>http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ataw/index.htm</ref>, which stimulated popular interest in Atlantis during the following century.  Using the science of the times, Donnelly made a serious attempt to explain that Atlantis was the "mother culture" of all civilization; that there was a connection between the mythical country of "Aztlan" of the Aztecs and Atlantis; and that the Aryan race which settled in the Punjab of India were direct descendants of Atlanteans<ref>http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ataw/ataw510.htm</ref>.  Largely debunked over the years, Donnelly's ''Atlantis'' still maintains a following among New-Agers and spiritualists.

===Nazism===

===Nazism===

The Aryan race was the "master race", according to Nazi philosophy.  To expand on the gains made by the Nazi Party in the control of Germany during the early-1930's, the head of the S.S., Heirich Himmler, created "Ancestral Heritage" in 1935, an organization dedicated to discovering the Aryans hidden past, as well as a site which attracted as many scientific cranks that the Nazis could provide.  To see if Tibet was an ancestral home, in 1938 an expedition was led for the purpose of anthropological and linguistic study, and led by an ornithologist named Ernst Schäfer, a man with a reputation for firing a gun on anything moving (and who accidentally killed his own wife on the expedition)[http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=249&t=4].  Despite numerous studies taken and plaster casts of Tibetan features, no evidence was collected which proved an Aryan-German-Atlantean connection; the organization was shut down as a result of [[World War II]]; and the leading members of the expedition were reassigned to assist in the death camps.

The Aryan race was the "master race", according to Nazi philosophy.  To expand on the gains made by the Nazi Party in the control of Germany during the early-1930's, the head of the S.S., Heirich Himmler, created "Ancestral Heritage" in 1935, an organization dedicated to discovering the Aryans hidden past, as well as a site which attracted as many scientific cranks that the Nazis could provide.  To see if Tibet was an ancestral home, in 1938 an expedition was led for the purpose of anthropological and linguistic study, and led by an ornithologist named Ernst Schäfer, a man with a reputation for firing a gun on anything moving (and who accidentally killed his own wife on the expedition)<ref>http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=249&t=4</ref>.  Despite numerous studies taken and plaster casts of Tibetan features, no evidence was collected which proved an Aryan-German-Atlantean connection; the organization was shut down as a result of [[World War II]]; and the leading members of the expedition were reassigned to assist in the death camps.

===Edgar Cayce===

===Edgar Cayce===