Selestor's Men of Atlantis, by Clara Iza von Ravn, , at sacred-
texts.com The government of Atlantis. Educational methods.
Peopling and customs. The government was modeled from that of
sons of Mars; at first a war-like monarchy whose head descended
from the house of one lone shepherd, who rose from skin-clad
people to a man of might in brain power; discerning in the sons
of his loved land a war-like tribe to overthrow and bind unto
them forces from the lands afar through centuries of toil. A
course mapped out from sire to son from which none deviated. And
thus the government was shaped, and held for years, by one deft
brain that builded as did the host of mortals on the planet ye
call "Mars," and thus I swear. How, ask ye, was the knowledge of
those men to him conveyed? By that thought power all own, but
not all rightly use. Yet he who was descended from the shepherd
learned, through close communion with the laws of Nature, that
all "space" was full of thought and listening, at an hour which
held for him most