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.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 5 July 1947 written
on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; included in a compilation
on ‘A New Race of Men’ prepared by the Research Department of the Universal
House of Justice and attached to a letter dated 15 September 2013 written on
behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer)
