A superficial culture, unsupported by a cultivated morality,
is as "a confused medley of dreams," and external lustre without
inner perfection is "like a vapour in the desert which the thirsty dreameth to be water." For results which would
win the good pleasure of God and secure the peace and well-being of man, could
never be fully achieved in a merely external civilization. ('Abdu'l-Bahá, Secret of Divine Civilization’; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. III, Social and Economic
Development)
