You should measure the universe and its possibilities by worlds and not by acres, Bickley." "And believe, I suppose, that a man can live a thousand years, whereas we know well that he cannot live more than about a hundred." "You don't know anything of the sort, Bickley.

All you know is that over the brief period of history with which we are acquainted, say ten thousand years at most, men have only lived to about a hundred.

But the very rocks which you are so fond of talking about, tell us that even this planet is millions upon millions of years of age.

Who knows then but that at some time in its history, men did not live for a thousand years, and that lost civilisations did not exist of which this Oro and his daughter may be two survivors ?" "There is no proof of anything of the sort," said Bickley.
"I don't know about proof, as you understand it, though I have read in Plato of a continent called Atlantis that was submerged, according to the story of old Egyptian priests.

But personally I have every proof, for it is all written down in the Bible at which you turn tip your nose, and I am very glad that I have been lucky enough to come across this unexpected confirmation of the story.