- Global integration also undermines the inherited certainties of the twentieth century. Interaction between diverse populations gives rise to a questioning of all established truths.
- Travel and migration expose people to new cultures and norms. People are brought face to face with their common humanity.
- Increasing recognition of the "oneness of humanity", a principle Baha'u'llah announced to the leaders of the world a century and a half ago—ignored, yet resistlessly accomplishing itself.
- Loss of faith in materialism, and progressive globalization of human experience, reinforce one another. The resulting upheaval is part of a spiritual process.
Materialism's error lies not in its laudable efforts to improve life, but in the disengagement of material progress from spiritual and moral development.Previous
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