Speculation can be directed towards the Mayan civilization in Mexico. Only the magnificently decorated public buildings are left but are now being strangled by the forest at Angkor. Did the survivors of Atlantis, the lost continent, migrate east to Egypt to bring pyramids to the valley of the Nile and then head west to Central America to create their own civilization? Were the Mayas the descendants of Atlantis? Did these migrations take place before the people of Atlantis met death by drowning? Since Plato's ancient readers never once thought of trying to locate Atlantis, did it exist? If it did, where was it located? Transversely, how far is up? How far is down?
But there is a sensible side to this speculation. As Henry David Thoreau relates, "Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature -- daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it -- rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we?" He also tells us, "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk." Alas! All else is relative, don't you think?
HANK
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