My hope is that through the zeal and ardour of the pure of heart,
the darkness of hatred and difference will be entirely abolished, and the light
of love and unity shall shine; this world shall become a new world; things material
shall become the mirror of the divine; human hearts shall meet and embrace each
other; the whole world become as a man’s native country and the different races
be counted as one race. Then disputes and differences will vanish, and the
Divine Beloved be revealed on this earth.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a talk, October
1911, London; ‘’Abdu’l-Baha in London’)
