…the ingrained prejudices of man. These prejudices have kept
the human world in a state of chaos for the past six thousand years. How many
wars have taken place; how many battles have been fought; how much discord has
been caused by them! Inasmuch as this century is the century of the manifestation
of truth -- praise be to God! -- the thoughts of men are turned to truth and
the souls are prepared for the oneness of humanity. The ocean of reality is
surging more tumultuously and the mirage of imitation is daily passing away.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, April 21, 1912, Washington DC, recorded by Mahmud
Zarqani; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)
