Century of Light

by Bahá'í International Community

Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1983), p. 31.

“In Europe at the start of the twentieth century, most people accepted the authority of morality.... [Then] reflective Europeans were also able to believe in moral progress, and to see human viciousness and barbarism as in retreat. At the end of the century, it is hard to be confident either about the moral law or about moral progress”: Jonathon Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century (London: Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 1. Glover’s study concentrates particularly on the rise and influence of twentieth century ideologies.

Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, op. cit., pp. 185-186.

ibid.

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, op. cit., pp. 65-66, (section XXVII).

ibid., pp. 41-42, (section XVII).

Women: Extracts from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi and the Universal House of Justice, compiled by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice (Thornhill: Bahá’í Canada Publications, 1986), p. 50.

Shoghi Effendi, Messages to America (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Committee, 1947), p. 28.

ibid., pp. 9, 10, 14, 22.

ibid., p. 28.