Progress as an

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The new earth

• Progress as an unwitting response

99 of all scientists are still living and 98
of all inventions have developed in the last 150
years
New landmarks in social progress equality,
justice..
. . .on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all
persons held as slaves within any State shall be
then, thenceforward, and forever free. . . And
upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of
justice I invoke the considerate judgment of
mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
-Abraham Lincoln
The world's equilibrium hath been upset through
the vibrating influence of this most great, this
new World Order. Mankind's ordered life hath
been revolutionized through the agency of this
unique, this wondrous System -- the like of which
mortal eyes have never witnessed. Bahaullah
The Ancient Beauty hath consented to be bound
with chains that mankind may be released from its
bondage, and hath accepted to be made a prisoner
that the whole world may attain unto true
liberty. Bahaullah, 1853, while in
chains. Bahaullah declared His mission publicly
in 1863.
Through the movement of Our Pen of glory We
have, at the bidding of the omnipotent Ordainer,
breathed a new life into every human frame, and
instilled into every word a fresh potency. All
created things proclaim the evidences of this
world-wide regeneration. Bahaullah
"A new life is, in this age, stirring within all
the peoples of the earth and yet none hath
discovered its cause or perceived its
motive. Bahaullah
We have, then, called into being a new
creation, as a token of Our grace unto men. I
am, verily, the All-Bountiful, the Ancient of
Days. Bahaullah 1863
1300-1500 Renaissance