The world has made such comet-like advance      Lately on science, we may almost hope,      Before we die of sheer decay, to learn      Something about our infancy; when lived      That great, original, broad-eyed, sunken race,      Whose knowledge, like the sea-sustaining rocks,      Hath formed the base of this world's fluctuous lore                                             FESTUS. Frontpiece: The Profile of Atlantis This book is an attempt to demonstrate several distinct and novel pro