Materialism and spirituality have always kept pace together.
Now materialism has gone ahead, the divine foundation is forgotten and is being
left behind. Among the causes of this failure is that religious leaders have
presented religion as if it were opposed to science and reason, and have
promoted imitations. Therefore you must bring about a conformity of religion
and science.
The appearance of the Manifestations of God is like the
appearance of the spring season. Undoubtedly the spring season does not last
permanently and eternally. Now we are hopeful that the divine springtime may
again become the cause of refreshing the garden of the world of existence.
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha to a number of
clergymen who called on Him on April 13, 1912 in New York city; recorded by Dr. Zia
Baghdadi, ‘Abdu’l-Baha in America’, Star of the West [The Baha'i Magazine], vol. 19, no. 2, May 1928)
