24 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, _Tablets of the Divine Plan_ (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1993), p. 94. 25 Shoghi Effendi, _God Passes By_, _op. cit._, pp. 281-282. 26 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, _The Promulgation of Universal Peace _ (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1995), p. 121, provisional re-translation. _ 27 Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá,_ _op. cit._, p. 106, (section 64.1). _ 28 ibid._, p. 23, (section 7.2). 29 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, _The Promulgation of Universal Peace,_ _op. cit._, pp. 455-456. 30 Juliet Thompson, _The Diary of Juliet Thompson_ (Los Angeles: Kalimát Press, 1983), p. 313. 31 Shoghi Effendi, _God Passes By_, _op. cit._, pp. 244-245. _ 32 Bahá’í World Faith_ (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1976), p. 429. 33 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Canada (Forest: National Spiritual Assembly of Canada, 1962), p. 51. 34 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, _Paris Talks_, 12th ed. (London: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1995), p. 64. 35 Eric Hobsbawm, _Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991_, _op. cit._, p. 23. _ 36 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh _(Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1983), p. 264, (section CXXV). 37 Edward R. Kantowicz, _The Rage of Nations_ (Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999), p. 138. Kantowicz adds that the total population loss for Europe was 48 million, including 15 million “swept away” because their run down health made them vulnerable to the post-war influenza epidemic, and because of the reduction caused by the steep drop in the birth rate consequent on these disasters. Hobsbawm estimates that France lost almost twenty percent of its men of military age, Britain lost one quarter of its Oxford and Cambridge graduates who served in the army during the war, while German losses reached 1.8 million or thirteen percent of their military age population. (See Eric Hobsbawm, _Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991, op. cit._, p. 26). 38 President Wilson has been the subject of many biographies over the years since his death. Three relatively recent biographies are Louis Auchincloss, _Woodrow Wilson_ (New York: Viking Penguin, 2000); A. Clements Kendrick, _Woodrow Wilson: World Statesman_ (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987); Thomas J. Knock, _To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order_ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). 39 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, _The Promulgation of Universal Peace_,_ op. cit_., p. 305. 40 Shoghi Effendi, _Citadel of Faith_, _op. cit._, p. 32. _ 41 ibid._, pp. 32-33.