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"Assuredly one may learn to the end of one's life! (Pt 43) (51:5) "Man makes nature his servant, harnesses electricity." "Man although in body a part of nature, nevertheless in spirit possesses a power transcending nature... God has conferred upon and added to man a distinctive power, the faculty of intellectual investigation into the secrets of creation, the acquisition of higher knowledge." (Bwf 236; Bwf 244) (51:6) "Man..., by his understanding or intellect, has been able to gain control of and adapt some... natural laws to his own needs. By the power of his intellect he has discovered means by which he not only traverses great continents in express trains and crosses vast oceans in ships, but, like the fish, he travels under water in submarines, and, imitating the birds, he flies through the air in airships." (Pt 42) (51:7) "For, in the existing knowledge of the reality of things there is material advantage, and through it outward civilization progresses." (Saq 344) (51:8) "All men have been created to carry forward an ever- advancing civilization." We must remember, though, that "Although material civilization is one of the means for the progress of the world of mankind, yet until it becomes combined with Divine civilization, the desired result, which is the felicity of mankind, will not be attained." (Bwf 114; Bwf 289)
(51:9)
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