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225method. You must follow us in all the reasoning up to our moral concept of thefuture of society to all the consequences, theoretical and practical that wefollow, and judge your own. What I can tell you beforehand is that we are asfar away from Christian beliefs in an invisible God and from the dogma ofrewards and punishment as belief in the Homeric gods of Olympus and thepagan dogma of free nature and enclaved (?). I am going to tell you more: weaccept even your four facts on the conclusions of which you found all yoursystem, except for the [blot] of a few others which will change yourconclusions.Secondly, in our conversation yesterday we couldn't arrive at anythingdecisive because I was asked questions of different kinds and I could notexplain my thoughts well, not being able to get them in a suitable order, andalso because we don't speak the same language. This circumstance increasedthe obstacles of understanding each other best and quickest. That is why assoon as I can and as much as I can, I want to do it and in English.I told you that it is to us St. Simonists, that the universe has destined tomake loved, learned, and practised, the best and definitive social system for allhumanity. How? and why? I propose to explain it to you. I will do it best if Iinsist this time principally on a few striking points of differences between youand us.(MSS 8626, pp. 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 CRR )