The Universal Races Congress was good, for it was intended
for the furtherance and progress of unity among all nations and a better
international understanding. The purpose was good. The causes of dispute among
different nations are always due to one of the following classes of prejudice:
racial, lingual, theological, personal, and prejudices of custom and tradition.
It requires a universal active force to overcome these differences. A small
disease needs a small remedy, but a disease which pervades the whole body needs
a very strong remedy. A small lamp may light a room, a larger would light a
house, a larger still might shine through the city, but the sun is needed to
light the whole world.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Notes of conversations; ‘Abdu’l-Baha in
London’)
