Consider the harmful effects of discord and dissension in a
family; then reflect upon the favours and blessings which descend upon that
family when unity exists among its various members. What incalculable benefits
and blessings would descend upon the great human family if unity and
brotherhood were established! In this century when the beneficent results of
unity and the ill effects of discord are so clearly apparent, the means for the
attainment and accomplishment of human fellowship have appeared in the world.
His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh has proclaimed and provided the way by which hostility
and dissension may be removed from the human world. He has left no ground or
possibility for strife and disagreement. First He has proclaimed the oneness of
mankind and specialized religious teachings for existing human conditions.
- ‘Abdu'l-Bahá (From a Tablet, published in "Star of the West" vol.
17, no. 7, October 1926; The Compilation of Compilations, Vol. I, Family Life)
