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An interesting and weighty fact, however, when brought to light, should suffice to convince anyone that coincidence cannot account for His seeming insight, nor can He be seen as simply a reformer with some good ideas. Not just for one of His teachings, but for the body of them, this same principle is true (121:4) In 1932, the Guardian of the Baha'i Faith, Shoghi Effendi, wrote:-. The humanitarian and spiritual principles enunciated decades ago in the darkest East by Baha'u'llah and moulded by Him into a coherent scheme are one after the other being taken by a world unconscious of their source as the marks of progressive civilisation. Dawn Breakers, p. xxxvi (121:5) If we had been alive during the time of Baha'u'llah, and someone had explained to us His teaching regarding the equality of men and women, most likely we could not have imagined that the world could ever accept it, and we ourselves probably would not have. Certainly no population in the world at the time had. But times change - relentlessly. And the world has, without knowing it, moved closer to Baha'u'llah's vision regarding men and women
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