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Excerpt from Life and Teachings Abbas Effendi: A Study or Me Religion or the Babis, or Beha'ls Founded by Persian Bab and by His Successors, Beha Ullah and Abbas Effendi
Increasing age and experience, (more 's the pity!) are apt enough, even without the assist ance Of the Oxford Magazine, to modify Our enthusiasms; but in this case at least time has so far vindicated my judgment against that of my Oxford reviewer that he could scarcely now maintain, as he formerly asserted, that the Babi religion had affected the least im portant part Of the Moslem world, and that not deeply. Every one who is in the slight est degree conversant with the actual state Of things in Persia now recognises that the num ber and influence Of the Babis in that country is immensely greater than it was fifteen years ago, and the conviction which I heard contin ually expressed this year in Babi circles at Cairo, that in the course Of a very short time their religion would reign paramount in their own country, and break down once and for all the power Of the Shi'ite Muhammadan majlanzds and malla's, is seriously discussed as a possi bility by European diplomatists and consular Officers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
