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With such affirmations, the driving force of evolution, which has historically been considered as the economy, is redefined. All progress in our evolution, until today, has basically been driven by the economy. Today we replace economy with justice. It is justice that today becomes the driving force of evolution. We must turn to it in the leap towards world unity. Human qualities such as honesty, willingness to work and spirit of collaboration will be profitably used for the realization of highly demanding common goals, only when each member of society can faithfully expect protection and can enjoy benefits that are equal for everybody. (71:1) Elaboration of this strategy requires that each human being can benefit from the necessary freedom of thought and action for his own spiritual growth without, however, leading the individual to the cult of individualism nor deifying the state as the source of all progress. Only in a consultative framework, made possible by the awareness of the oneness of mankind, will all related members, in respect of human rights, find legitimate creative expression. Therefore universal education, freedom of movement, access to information and the possibility of taking part in political life are only one part of the aspects that require an explicit guarantee on the part of the international community. It is obvious that in this world of confederated states, educational, cultural, and customs barriers won't exist and in order to obtain this, an equal distribution of wealth will not only be necessary, but it will also be crucial to reviewing the system of taxation [77]. The method anticipated by Baha'u'llah is based on the increase of wealth; and that is each citizen will have to pay not on the basis of his income, but on the basis of how much is left after detracting the expenses that he sustains in order to live [78].
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