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The present Exhibition at Burlington . House has invested all things

Persian with a new interest. The Bdhei'i World, recording the progress of a movement which arose in Persia during the last century, proves that the land of Omar Khayyam has more to give than poetry and objects of art. It is difficult to estimate the significance of the Balkit'i Move- ment described in The Beiheil World (Bablei Publishing Com- mittee, New York City, U.S.A.). The prophet Balul'u'llah taught the fundamental unity of religions, the equality of the sexes, the peaceful reorganization of society, and the abolition of war, and his followers were persecuted in Persia. Now, for the first time, under the beneficent rule of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Bahaists may honour their prophet in his own country.

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