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Nor can this subject be dismissed without special reference to the names of those men of eminence and learning who were moved, at various stages of Abdu'l- Baha's ministry, to pay tribute not only to Abdu'l- Baha Himself but also to the Faith of Baha'u'llah. Such names as Count Leo Tolstoy, Prof. Arminius Vambery, Prof. Auguste Forel, Dr. David Starr Jordan, the Venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce, Prof. Jowett of Balliol, Dr. T. K. Cheyne, Dr. Estlin Carpenter of Oxford University, Viscount Samuel of Carmel, Lord Lamington, Sir Valentine Chirol, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Prince Muhammad- 'Ali of Egypt, Shaykh Muhammad Abdu, Midhat Pasha, and Khurshid Pasha attest, by virtue of the tributes associated with them, the great progress made by the Faith of Baha'u'llah under the brilliant leadership of His exalted Son-- tributes whose impressiveness was, in later years, to be heightened by the historic, the repeated and written testimonies which a famous Queen, a grand- daughter of Queen Victoria, was impelled to bequeath to posterity as a witness of her recognition of the prophetic mission of Baha'u'llah.
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