We don't inherit the oceans from our ancestors; we borrow them from our children.
Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing whether they exist or not or of what sort they may be, because of the obscurity of the subject, and the brevity of human life.
Data is not the answer, but the beginning of the question.
Liberal democracy may constitute the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of human government."