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233Letter Nr. 9[To Dr. Crellin]London, January 25, 1831An hour after midnight I get home from your place. I am thinking aboutyou and my heart beats with most fervid joy. So understand at last what placeyou are destined to occupy in the history of progress, what work is reserved foryou in the great labour of the definitive regeneration of humanity.What? You feel all the scientific, political and moral value of ourdoctrine. You tell me you like it yet seem to say to me: one can accept theopinions of the St. Simonists without being a St. Simonist.You tell me: nothing is here decisive yet and possible for our doctrine.But do you believe that a definitive religion, a religion for all humanity couldbe revealed without all humans being prepared for it. Don't you agree that ifEngland still has great critical writings to be done she is doing them and willdo them as quickly as possible to be able to identify with us?You who say that my mission to London will bear great fruit and alsoyou wish to act with all the zeal and energy that your love of humanity inspiresyou for our cause, and when you speak of other dectrines you call them yourown.No cold indifference, no forgetfulness of your former teacher, for ourprecursor, for that friend of humanity, the really superior man who surroundedwith everything, immortality, with all the error, with the most harmfulcustoms, rose up full of love, to act only for the good of all.The writings are holy. He prepared the way for the St. Simonist word.Glory, gratitude,love, the tenderest love for our former master.But you, if you think today, if you wish to act, if you love what St.Simonists think, act and love, remember that thought, act, feeling are the total