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223Letter Nr. 7London, January 6, 1831The First Letter of a St. Simonist to Mr. OwenSir,In our first conversation yesterday which was supposed to compare ourviews on the future of humanity, our ways of getting there and our newtheoretical and practical principles we arrived at nothing decisive. That shouldbe the case and I expected it. Why?Firstly. Men such as we are St. Simonists, burning with the desire ofcuring, of radically and definitively curing all the ills which today afflict thehuman race, wanting to change the egoism and the hate which tears apartpresent society from union and universal love, only we wishing the best,knowing how and being able to realize it because our power and knowledge isinfinite. It is infinite power and knowledge of all that exists, of the wholeuniverse finite and infinite, and our will, our love is his will his infinite love.We alone realize among you and us what will be realized on the whole earthand what would not have been if it were not first realized in us men such as weare, destined to harmonize anew and definitively each individual in himselfand each individual in all society and society with the whole universe, andharmonized already so much we are living as a single person, the man of thefuture, ourselves. Such men you know that we act the most promptly, we makeourselves loved the soonest. It is to these sympathetic hearts which bear thesufferings of the others, who are devoured with the wish of repairing it withoutany institution, no thought, no social good from the past which smelled of allthe moral nothingness of present society which have broken with every pastsociety, who are ready to make every sacrifice for the future society and whoare not yet attached to any transaction between the present and the future to