English英语译成Chinese汉语 社会科学 历史 Intellectual History

Now the Greeks were by no means the first people to think, nor even the first to think scientifically... But the Greeks first reasoned about the whole range of human experience. The Greeks even reasoned about how they should behave. Perhaps every human being tried to do what the Greeks did by reasoning -- that is, adjust himself to the strange, bewildering, sometimes hostile universe that is clearly not himself, that seems to run on most of the time with no regard for him, that seems to have will, strength, purpose often at odds with his. Probably Australian Bushmen, Iroquois, Kalmucks, adn all other peoples reason about these matters, and if we really knew how their minds worked we could understand them. But the point is, some of the Greeks, as early as the great age, did it our way. Their mind worked the way ours work.

这里的 "that is clearly not himself" 指的是 universe，但如果翻译成「那显然不是他自己」又似乎太乏味。各位同人有什么好主意？