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It is customary to call the civilization of modern Europe 'par excellence' Christian and to think of it as the special trustee of Christian truth among the less enlightened peoples of the East. Yet in the twentieth century.. we find 'Abdul-Baha saying that the West as well as the East had "imagined themselves as having attained a glorious pinnacle of achievement and prosperity, when in reality they have touched the innermost depths of heedlessness..
(50:1)
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