Atlantis Quotes
This was one of the first suspicions that America and Europe were connected as a single content in earlier times. That supercontinent is now called Laurasia. Atlantis was a fabled island that the story goes was sunk with its whole civilization. It has never been found and may not have ever existed. De Buffon’s mechanism for the Ocean was clearly wrong but the separation of Laurasia started to occur hundreds of millions of years ago. The continents are still moving—only inches each year.
Donnelly had written a book claiming that there was an ancient city of Atlantis, located in the Atlantic Ocean between America and Europe which had sunk beneath the seas. The Prime Minister wrote Donnelly a handwritten letter addressed: “Mr. Ignatius Donnelly, America” which the Post Office delivered correctly. Gladstone’s critics see this as another example of the Prime Minister’s gullibility and lack of intellectual sophistication.