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Observe carefully how
education and the arts of civilization bring honor, prosperity, independence
and freedom to a government and its people.
It is, furthermore,
a vital necessity to establish schools throughout ..., even in the smallest
country towns and villages, and to encourage the people in every possible
way to have their children learn to read and write. If necessary, education
should even be made compulsory. Until the nerves and arteries of the nation
stir into life, every measure that is attempted will prove vain; for the
people are as the human body, and determination and the will to struggle
are as the soul, and a soulless body does not move. This dynamic power
is present to a superlative degree in the very nature of the ... people,
and the spread of education will release it.
('Abdu'l-Bahá:
Secret of Divine Civilization, Pages: 111-112)
The Bahá'í Terraces, Mt. Carmel, Haifa, Israel. 
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The ceremony also included Bahá'í children singing selections from the Bahá'í writings in French and Tahitian.
Francis Dubois, a Bahá'í from Paea, summed up the feelings of those present when he rejoiced in seeing the physical presence of the Faith established: "Our hearts are on fire and filled with joy," Mr. Dubois said.
The opening ceremony came only eight months after the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Huahine decided to undertake the project.
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