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the artificer of night and day." All this Greek learning was probably drawn from the Egyptians.

Only among the Atlanteans in Europe and America do we find traditions preserved as to the origin of all the principal inventions which have raised man from a savage to a civilized condition. We can give in part the very names of the inventors.

Starting with the Chippeway legends, and following with the Bible and Phœnician records, we make a table like the appended:

The Invention or Discovery.	The Race.	The Inventors.
Fire The bow and arrow The use of flint The use of copper The manufacture of bricks Agriculture and hunting Village life, and the rearing of flocks The use of salt The use of letters Navigation The art of music Metallurgy, and the use of iron The syrinx The lyre	Atlantean Chippeway ⁠" ⁠" Atlantean ⁠" ⁠" ⁠" ⁠" ⁠" Hebrew ⁠" Greek ⁠"	Phos, Phur, and Phlox. Manaboshu. ⁠" ⁠" Autochthon and Technites. Argos and Agrotes. Amynos and Magos. Misor and Sydyk. Taautos, or Taut. The Cabiri, or Corybantes. Jubal. Tubal-cain. Pan. Hermes.

We cannot consider all these evidences of the vast antiquity of the great inventions upon which our civilization mainly rests, including the art of writing, which, as I have shown, dates back far beyond the beginning of history; we cannot remember that the origin of all the great food-plants, such as wheat, oats, barley, rye, and maize, is lost in the remote past; and that all the domesticated animals, the horse, the ass, the ox, the sheep, the goat, and the hog had been reduced to subjection to man in ages long previous to written history, without having the conclusion forced upon us irresistibly that beyond Egypt and Greece, beyond Chaldea and China, there existed a mighty civilization, of which these states were but the broken fragments.