The more material education advances,
the more competitive is the race in aggression and injustice. But spiritual
education is the cause of competition in praiseworthy actions and the
acquisition of human perfections. We hope that day by day these injustices will
diminish and the spiritual virtues increase. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, excerpt from a talk, August 7, 1912, Dublin,
USA; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)
