I hope you are all happy and well. I am not happy, but very
sad. The news of the Battle of Benghazi grieves my heart. I wonder at the human
savagery that still exists in the world! How is it possible for men to fight from
morning until evening, killing each other, shedding the blood of their
fellow-men: And for what object? To gain possession of a part of the earth!
Even the animals, when they fight, have an immediate and more reasonable cause
for their attacks! How terrible it is that men, who are of the higher kingdom,
can descend to slaying and bringing misery to their fellow-beings, for the
possession of a tract of land!
The highest of created beings fighting to obtain the lowest
form of matter, earth! Land belongs not to one people, but to all people. This
earth is not man’s home, but his tomb. It is for their tombs these men are
fighting. There is nothing so horrible in this world as the tomb, the abode of
the decaying bodies of men.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a talk, Paris, October 21, 1911, ‘Paris Talks’)
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a talk, Paris, October 21, 1911, ‘Paris Talks’)
