The scientific and technological advances occurring in this
unusually blessed century 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 (From a message dated
October 1985, addressed to the Peoples of the World; ‘The Promise of World
Peace’)
