Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — The Flood Legends. [ARTICLE]

The Flood Legends.

Some have sought an explanation of the flood legends in the story of the drowning of the mythical continent of Atlantis. Thia is a fascinating exercise for the imagination, rendered jnftrp attractive by the faint Indications from geology that there may once have been a continent In the midst of the Atlantic. ocean. But If so, we are carried back to an age so remote that it is virtually impossible to correlate It with the existence of man, and particularly with man in such a state of development as that which the legends depict The deluge story is so persistent la human annals that it must have had an origin in some actual event, or series of events, but science, at present, can throw no definite light upon it and a study of the myth-making faculty, so strong In primitive humanity, must be relied on to clear up the mystery of its universal diffusion. —Garrett P. Serviss.