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In his “Peruvian Antiquities” (see ''The Theosophist'' for March) Dr. Heath, of Kansas City—''rara avis'' among scientific men, a fearless searcher, who accepts truth wherever he finds it, and is not afraid to speak it out in the very face {{Page aside|313}}of dogmatic opposition—sums up his impressions of the Peruvian relics in the following words: | In his “Peruvian Antiquities” (see ''The Theosophist'' for March) Dr. Heath, of Kansas City—''rara avis'' among scientific men, a fearless searcher, who accepts truth wherever he finds it, and is not afraid to speak it out in the very face {{Page aside|313}}of dogmatic opposition—sums up his impressions of the Peruvian relics in the following words: | ||
{{ | {{Style P-Quote|Three times the Andes sank hundreds of feet beneath the ocean level, and again were slowly brought to their present height. A man’s life would be too short to count even the centuries consumed in this operation. The coast of Peru has risen eighty feet since it felt the tread of Pizarro. Supposing the Andes to have risen uniformly and without interruption, seventy thousand years must have elapsed before they reached their present altitude.}} | ||
{{ | {{Style P-Quote|Who knows, then, but that Jules Verne’s fanciful idea<ref>This idea is plainly expressed and asserted as a fact by Plato in his ''Banquet;'' and was taken up by Lord Bacon in his ''New Atlantis''. [H.P.B.]</ref> regarding the lost continent Atlanta may be near the truth? Who can say, that where now is the Atlantic Ocean, formerly did not exist a continent, with its dense population, advanced in the arts and sciences, who, as they found their land sinking beneath the waters, retired, part east and part west, populating thus the two new hemispheres? This would explain the similarity of their archæological structures and races and their differences, modified by and adapted to the character of their respective climates and countries. Thus could the llama and the camel differ, although of the same species; thus the algoraba and espino trees; thus the Iroquois Indians of North America and the most ancient Arabs call the constellation of the “Great Bear” by the same name; thus various nations, cut off from all intercourse or knowledge of each other, divide the zodiac in twelve constellations, apply to them the same names, and the Northern Hindoos apply the name Andes to their Himalayan mountains, as did the South Americans to their principal chain.<ref>“The name ''America'',” said I, in ''Isis Unveiled'' (Vol. I, p. 591) three years ago, “may one day be found more closely related to ''Meru'', the sacred mount in the centre of the ''seven'' continents.” When first discovered America was found to bear among some native tribes the name of ''Atlanta''. In the States of Central America we find the name ''Amerih'', signifying, like Meru, a great mountain. The origin of the ''Kamas'' Indians of America is also unknown. [H.P.B.]</ref> Must we fall in the old rut and suppose no other means of populating the Western Hemisphere except “by way of Behring’s Strait”? Must we still locate a geographical Eden in the East, and suppose a land equally adapted to man and as old geologically, must wait the aimless wanderings of the “lost tribe of Israel” to become populated?<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[Heath, ''op. cit''., pp. 468-69.]}}</ref>}} | ||
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