This can in no wise be achieved except through the power of a skilled, an all-powerful and inspired Physician."-- Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, pp.

254, 255.
By the Lesser Peace is meant a political unity of states, while the Most Great Peace is a unity embracing spiritual as well as political and economic factors.

"Soon will the present-day order be rolled up, and a new one spread out in its stead."-- Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p.

7.
In former ages, a government could concern itself with external matters and material affairs, but today the function of government demands a quality of leadership, of consecration and of spiritual knowledge impossible save to those who have turned to God.
Political Freedom Although advocating as the ideal condition a representative form of government, local, national and international, Baha'u'llah teaches that this is possible only when men have attained a sufficiently high degree of individual and social development.

Suddenly to grant full self-government to people without education, who are dominated by selfish desires and are inexperienced in the conduct of public affairs, would be disastrous.