To claim to have grasped all the implications of
Bahá'u'lláh's prodigious scheme for world-wide human solidarity, or to have
fathomed its import, would be presumptuous on the part of even the declared
supporters of His Faith. To attempt to visualize it in all its possibilities,
to estimate its future benefits, to picture its glory, would be premature at
even so advanced a stage in the evolution of mankind.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a
letter dated 28 November 1931 to the Bahá'ís of the West, published in
"The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh: Selected Letters"; The Compilation
of Compilations, Vol. II, Peace)
