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’)
