We have formerly ordained that people should converse in two
languages, yet efforts must be made to reduce them to one, likewise the scripts
of the world, that men’s lives may not be dissipated and wasted in learning
divers languages. Thus the whole earth would come to be regarded as one city
and one land.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Words of Paradise’;
Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’
