Herculaneum, past, present & future . HKKCI. MANUSCRIPTS. 3. Two fragments truni Mctrodorus wepi ai<r8^ icai ffijfjiauijcwv. INTRODUCTION 9 critus, Anaxagoras, and all the treasures of thought only-known to us from fragmentary lines in later writers ; themissing works of Plato and Aristotle (what would one notgive to see a complete Poetics ?) ; the whole of Romanliterature, the lost books of Livy,—one hardly dares to allowones imagination to roam in these dazzling fields of classicallight. Nor is it impossible that we may find contemporaryrecords, letters referring to the ris

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Herculaneum, past, present & future . HKKCI. MANUSCRIPTS. 3. Two fragments truni Mctrodorus wepi ai<r8^ icai ffijfjiauijcwv. INTRODUCTION 9 critus, Anaxagoras, and all the treasures of thought only-known to us from fragmentary lines in later writers ; themissing works of Plato and Aristotle (what would one notgive to see a complete Poetics ?) ; the whole of Romanliterature, the lost books of Livy,—one hardly dares to allowones imagination to roam in these dazzling fields of classicallight. Nor is it impossible that we may find contemporaryrecords, letters referring to the rise and the early years ofChristianity. All this seems to await us. At least we areforced in conscientious sobriety to the conviction that themere promise makes it the duty of the whole of civilisedhumanity to strain every nerve in view of the possibility ofsuch discoveries. The presence of these libraries brings us to a furtherpoint of difference between Herculaneum and Pompeii w

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