62 of "Esoteric Buddhism" regarding "old Greeks and Romans
said to have been Atlanteans." The answer is--None whatever. The word
"Atlantean" was a generic name. The objection to have it applied to the
old Greeks and Romans on the ground that they were Aryans, "their
language being intermediate between Sanskrit and modern European
dialects," is worthless. With equal reason might a future 6th Race
scholar, who had never heard of the (possible) submergence of a portion
of European Turkey, object to Turks from the Bosphorus being referred to
as a remnant of the Europeans. "The Turks are surely Semites," he might
say 12,000 years hence, and "their language is intermediate between
Arabic and our modern 6th Race dialects." *
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* This is not to be construed to mean that 12,000 years hence there will
be yet any man of the 6th Race, or that the 5th will be submerged. The
figures are given simply for the sake of a better comparison with the
present objection in the case of the Greeks and Atlantis.
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The "historical difficulty" arises from a certain authoritative
statement made by Orientalists on philological grounds.
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