In these days the world of humanity is afflicted with a
chronic disease. It is one of bloodshed, the destruction of the divine edifice,
the demolition of cities and villages, the slaughter of the noble youths of the
world of humanity, children becoming orphans and women homeless and
shelterless. What calumny is greater than this? What crime is more heinous than
this? What disease is more dangerous than this? What folly is more direful than
this?
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet to the Editor of the Christian Commonwealth,
London, England, 1913; ‘Star of the West’, vol. 5, no. 8, August 1, 1914)
