evolutional law is far above the gods.

An early stage of that degeneration would be represented by total
incapacity to help ourselves;--then we should begin to lose the
use of our higher sense-organs;--later on, the brain would shrink
to a vanishing pin-point of matter;--still later we should
dwindle into mere amorphous sacs, mere blind stomachs. Such would
be the physical consequence of that kind of divine love which we
so lazily wish for. The longing for perpetual bliss in perpetual
peace might well seem a malevolent inspiration from the Lords of
Death and Darkness. All life that feels and thinks has been, and
can continue to be, only as the product of struggle and pain,--
only as the outcome of endless battle with the Powers of the
Universe. And cosmic law is uncompromising. Whatever organ ceases
to know pain,--whatever faculty ceases to be used under the
stimulus of pain,--must also cease to exist. Let pain and its
effort be suspended, and life must shrink back, first into
protoplasmic shapelessness, thereafter into dust.

Buddhism--which, in its own grand way, is a doctrine of
evolution--rationally proclaims its heaven but a higher stage of
development through pain, and teaches that even in paradise the
cessation of effort produces degradation. With equal
reasonableness it declares that the capacity for pain in the
superhuman world increases always in proportion to the capacity
for pleasure. (There is little fault to be found with this
teaching from a scientific standpoint,--since we know that higher
evolution must involve an increase of sensitivity to pain.) In
the Heavens of Desire, says the Shobo-nen-jo-kyo, the pain of
death is so great that all the agonies of all the hells united