It is
very easy indeed for him to understand how you, with your training, are often
tested and irritated by your contact with some of the believers. But then you
must remember that your advantages of a reasonable mind and a scientific
education have not been given to all, and you cannot expect acceptance of
Bahá’u’lláh’s Teachings to endow people with these things automatically! But
think of the kind of human beings, if brought up in the society He envisages,
and taught in homes, schools and universities which were the mirror and product
of His teachings, which would be produced! There you would really have a new
race of men.
(From
a letter dated 5 July 1947 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual
believer; compilation: ‘A New Race of Men’, prepared by the Research department of the Universal
House of Justice, included in a letter dated 13 September 2013 written by the Office of
Correspondence of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer)
