Austin, Dr. Elsie

Dr. Alain Locke can possessed intellectual brilliance whereas the beloved Hand of the Cause—Louis Gregory—possessed spiritual brilliance.

Locke’s life was a demonstration of the high academic standards a Baha'i could achive. ‘Adu'l-Baha has written: “I desire distinction for you; I desire that the Baha'is contribute to the useful arts of civilization.” Also He emphasized the importance of science and all things related to it. Dr. Locke earned a doctrorate in Philosophy from Harvard and won a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to do postgraduate work at Oxford.