Harriet Beecher Stowe came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans.
Living with or without a teleological framework makes a difference to the outcomes we hold sacred. Are they needed? Not necessarily, but they help. The danger lies in the lies, not the algorithm that gets us there. To the finish line is an interim goal for the human race.
The individuation of the paradigm shift within is a phenomenon that we only recognize a few times within a typical lifetime. Gratitude is the ideal and according to Cicero the greatest of all virtues.