The scientific and technological advances occurring in this
unusually blessed century [20th] portend a great surge forward in the social
evolution of the planet, and indicate the means by which the practical problems
of humanity may be solved. They provide, indeed, the very means for the
administration of the complex life of a united world. Yet barriers persist.
Doubts, misconceptions, prejudices, suspicions and narrow self-interest beset
nations and peoples in their relations one to another.
- The Universal House of
Justice (‘The Promise of World Peace, October 1985)
