In each of his activities the Greek found something wonderful, and called it God: the hearth at which he warmed himself and cooked his food, the street in which his house stood, the horse he rode, the cattle he pastured, the wife he married, the child that was born to him, the plague of which he died or from which he recovered, each suggested a deity, and he made one to preside over each.

So too with qualities and powers more abstract." R.W.

Livingstone: The Greek Genius and Its Meaning to Us, pp.

51-52.
Livingstone discusses the Greek Genius as displayed to us in certain "notes"-- the Note of Beauty--the Desire for Freedom--the Note of Directness--the Note of Humanism--the Note of Sanity and of Many-sidedness.

Upon some of these characteristics we shall have occasion to dwell in the brief sketch of the rise of scientific medicine among this wonderful people.
We have seen that the primitive man and in the great civilizations of Egypt and Babylonia, the physician evolved from the priest--in Greece he had a dual origin, philosophy and religion.