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“Hence the new age will be an age less masculine and more permeated with the feminine ideals, or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced.”
When woman’s point of view receives due consideration and woman’s will is allowed adequate expression in the arrangement of social affairs, we may expect great advancement in matters which have often be grievously neglected under the old regime of male dominance—such matters as health, temperance, peace, and regard for the value of the individual life. Improvements in these respects will have very far-reaching and beneficent effects. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá says:—
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> The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man > has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful and > aggressive qualities both of body and mind. But the balance is > already shifting; force is losing its dominance, and mental > alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and > service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy.
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Hence the > new age will be an age less masculine and more permeated with the > feminine ideals, or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which > the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more > evenly balanced.—Star of the West, viii, No. 3, p. 4 [from > report of remarks made aboard the S.S. Cedric on arrival in New > York].
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Source
by J. E. Esslemont · 1923
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