es.
Its purpose is neither to stifle the flame of a sane and
intelligent patriotism in men's hearts, nor to abolish the system
of national autonomy so essential if the evils of excessive
centralization are to be avoided. It does not ignore, nor does it
attempt to suppress, the diversity of ethnical origins, of
climate, of history, of language and tradition, of thought and
habit, that differentiate the peoples and nations of the world. It
calls for a wider loyalty, for a larger aspiration than any that
has animated the human race....

The call of Baha'u'llah is primarily directed against all forms of
provincialism, all insularities and prejudices.... For legal
standards, political and economic theories are solely designed to
safeguard the interests of humanity as a whole, and not humanity
to be crucified for the preservation of the integrity of any
particular law or doctrine....

The principle of the Oneness of Mankind--the pivot round which all
the teachings of Baha'u'llah revolve--is no mere outburst of
ignorant emotionalism or an expression of vague and pious hope....
Its implications are deeper, its claims greater than any which the
Prophets of old were allowed to advance. Its message is applicable
not only to the individual, but concerns itself primarily with the
nature of those essential relationships that must bind all the
states and nations as members of one human family....

It represents the consummation of human evolution....

That the forces of a world catastrophe can alone precipitate such
a new phase of human thought is, alas, becoming increasingly
apparent....

Nothing but a fiery ordeal, out of which humanity will emerge,
chastened and prepared, can succeed in implanting that sense of
responsibility which the leaders of a newborn age must arise to
shoulder....

Has not 'Abdu'l-Baha Himself asserted in unequivocal language that
"another war, fiercer than the last, will assuredly break
out"?--November 28, 1931.

This Administrative Order ... will, as its component parts, its
organic institutions, begin to function with efficiency and vigor,
assert its claim and demonstrate its capacity to be regarded not
only as the nucleus but the very pattern of the New World Order
destined to embrace in the fullness of time the whole of
man