Once the Parliament of Man is established and its
constituent parts organized, the governments of the world having entered into a
covenant of eternal friendship will have no need of keeping large standing
armies and navies. A few battalions to preserve internal order, and an International
Police to keep the highways of the seas clear, are all that will be necessary.
Then these huge sums will be diverted to other more useful channels, pauperism
will disappear, knowledge will increase, the victories of Peace will be sung by
poets and bards, knowledge will improve the conditions and mankind will be
rocked in the cradle of felicity and bliss.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (’Star of the West’,
vol. 5, no. 8, August 1914; The Compilation of Compilations, Vol. II, Peace)
