supergod

— We traveled a great deal during the last ten years of the Doctor's life. Usually I went with him, and usually our voyages were to Europe, where we revisited the old haunts or made acquaintance with regions we had not known before. Germany continued her upward progress. Politically, industrially, economically, the Doctor saw his grandmother country change from the poverty, simplicity, and humility which were formerly her distinguishing features to a position of wealth, importance, and pride, disputing the hegemony with Albion herself. In his heart of hearts he attributed the leadership she was winning to her devotion to, her preeminence in science. He gloried in this triumph of his religion. Science to him included all possibilities. It had the true idea of eternity because it proclaimed the constant flow and interaction of living forces — evolution. It set up no truth, no revelation from man-made supergod to demigod or superman, no creed that in its very arresting of development contained the germ of death, but taught a gradual unfolding of life forces which, even in destroying, build up and make for growth.