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There is a sense of isolation within human beings, and hate-inspiring ideologies keep gaining more ground. Our different faiths have a common aimto make us realize the essential brotherhood of man. In practice they make us more aware of the divisions among us.
Why have we all met here today from the four corners of the earth? Not to argue dogmatically over differences, but to break the barriers of racialism and sectarianism and to learn something from one another; we have come to see the same object from one another's point of view so that we can understand one another better and help one another in solving our problems. The goal for each of us is the same, though the approach may be different. Argument will not take us any nearer the goal. I am here reminded of an incident which will bear out my point.
At an eye clinic where many patients were waiting for treatment, there were four who were blind. One of them inadvertently touched a window pane and importantly announced to the others, “This is a window pane; it is red. My son told me so."
Another cut him short, with the assertion that it was 'green' and cited with equal emphasis the authority of a brother. The other two contradicted them, each with a different colour and different authority, but with the same querulousness and the same conviction. The storm in the tea cup was quelled by another patient who explained to them that the panes were multi-coloured, much to the
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