enormous energy dissipated and wasted on war, whether economic or
political, will be consecrated to such ends as will extend the
range of human inventions and technical development, to the
increase of the productivity of mankind, to the extermination of
disease, to the extension of scientific research, to the raising
of the standard of physical health, to the sharpening and
refinement of the human brain, to the exploitation of the unused
and unsuspected resources of the planet, to the prolongation of
human life, and to the furtherance of any other agency that can
stimulate the intellectual, the moral, and spiritual life of the
entire human race.

A world federal system, ruling the whole earth and exercising
unchallengeable authority over its unimaginably vast resources,
blending and embodying the ideals of both the East and the West,
liberated from the curse of war and its miseries, and bent on the
exploitation of all the available sources of energy on the surface
of the planet, a system in which Force is made the servant of
Justice, whose life is sustained by its universal recognition of
one God and by its allegiance to one common Revelation--such is the
goal towards which humanity, impelled by the unifying forces of
life, is moving....

The whole of mankind is groaning, is dying to be led to unity, and
to terminate its age-long martyrdom. And yet it stubbornly refuses
to embrace the light and acknowledge the sovereign authority of
the one Power that can extricate it from its entanglements, and
avert the woeful calamity that threatens to engulf it....

Unification of the whole of mankind is the hall-mark of the stage
which human society is now approaching. Unity of family, of tribe,
of city-state, and nation have been successively attempted and
fully established. World unity is the goal towards which a
harassed humanity is striving. Nation-building has come to an end.
The anarchy inherent in state sovereignty is moving towards a
climax. A world, growing to maturity, must abandon this fetish,
recognize the oneness and wholeness of human relationships, and
establish once for all the machinery that can best incarnate this
fundamental principle of its life.--March 11, 1936.

[The above letters have been published in one volume entitled The
World Order of Baha'