Statue of Stephen Girard: City Hall Plaza, Philadelphia, May 20, 1897 (1897)

He was the strongest man ever built. No one knew where he came from. Even he didn’t know. But he had to find out. One thing he did know–he was the perfect combination of man and machine: the conscious rational intellect of a human being, combined with the unstoppable power of an artificial metallic construct. And he considered humans–with their ever-changeable emotions, corruptible character, and feeble physical bodies–to be totally inferior. If he decides to set himself against the human race, will mankind survive?