and Romans were small sub-races of our own Caucasian stock” (p. 6), and they were “the remnants of the Atlanteans (the modern belong to the fifth race)” (p. 62), show the real meaning on their face.  By the old Greeks, “remnants of the Atlanteans” the eponymous ancestors (as they are called by Europeans) of the Aeolians, Dorians and Ionians, are meant.  By the connection together of the old Greeks and Romans without distinction, was meant that the primitive Latins were swallowed by Magna Graecia.  And by “the modern” belonging “to the fifth race”—­both these small branchlets from whose veins had been strained out the last drop of the Atlantean blood—­it was implied that the Mongoloid 4th race blood had already been eliminated.  Occultists make a distinction between the races intermediate between any two root-races:  the Westerns do not.  The “old Romans” were Hellenes in a new ethnological disguise; and the still older Greeks the real blood ancestors of the future Romans.  In direct relation to this, attention is drawn to the following fact—­one of the many in close historical bearing upon the “mythical” age to which Atlantis belongs.  It is a fable and may be charged to the account of historical difficulties.  It is well calculated, however, to throw all the old ethnological and genealogical divisions into confusion.

Asking the reader to bear in mind that Atlantis, like modern Europe, comprised many nations and many dialects (issues from the three primeval root-languages of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Races), we may return to Poseidonis, its last surviving remnant of 12,000 years ago.  As the chief element in the languages of the 5th race is the Aryan-Sanskrit of the “Brown-white” geological stock or race, so the predominating element in Atlantis was a language which has now survived but in the dialects of some American Red-Indian tribes, and in the Chinese speech of the inland Chinamen, the mountainous tribes of Kivang-ze—­a language which was an admixture of the agglutinate and the monosyllabic, as it would be called by modern philologists.  It was, in short, the language of the “Red-yellow” second or middle geological stock (we maintain the term “geological").  A strong percentage of the Mongoloid or 4th Root-race was, of course, to be found in the Aryans of the 5th.  But this did not prevent in the least the presence at the same time of unalloyed, pure Aryan races in it.  A number of small islands scattered around Poseidonis had been vacated, in consequence of earthquakes, long before the final catastrophe, which has alone remained in the memory of men—­ thanks to some written records.  Tradition says that one of the small tribes (the Aeolians) who had become islanders after emigrating from far northern countries, had to leave their home again for fear of a deluge.  If, in spite of the Orientalists and the conjecture of M.F.  Lenormant—­ who invented a name for a people whose shadowy outline he dimly perceived in the faraway