ABSTRACT
The gifts of the Hellenic mind did not, moreover, come with any particular race, but developed in an heterogeneous enough commingling of racial stocks. The ingenuity of historians has been puzzled to account for the ‘miracle of Greece,’ as it has been called. The social and intellectual questions developed in Greece between citizens and citizens, not between masters and slaves. That immeasurable difference rests upon the circumstance that primal irrationalism in Greece never served as the foundation for constituted power, that authority was never founded upon it. Religion, accordingly, while resting upon the selfsame primal conceptions and myths in Greece as in Babylon or Jerusalem, stood with the Greeks, as with the Norse, the Germans for something wholly different as regards the place it occupied in human life from the religions of the Eastern river-lands. In the world before Greece was, in the Oriental world, only one thing could, in the circumstances, have happened.
