Take a look at the list of his works in the footnote; it is difficult not to be dismayed, imagining what we have lost of the vast scientific reflections of antiquity.* We have been left with all of Aristotle, by way of which Western thought reconstructed itself, and nothing by Democritus. Perhaps if all the works of Democritus had survived, and nothing of Aristotle’s, the intellectual history of our civilization would have been better.
