…if there is a universal language, how excellent it would
be. We could talk with each other. How excellent it would be. Compare this with
all the world, the greatest means for love is a universal language. It creates love
amongst mankind. For the language of the Kingdom is one. It is the language of the
hearts. Hearts create amity with each other. In the same way that the language of
the Kingdom is one, so also should the human tongues be one. Then it will be perfect,
Hidden and Manifest, inner and outer, will become one.
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha,
recorded by Harry Randall during his pilgrimage, 17 November 1919; ‘William
Henry Randall, a Disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’, by Bahiyyih Randall-Wincler)
