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237Letter Nr. 11[To R. Owen]Paris, February 13, 1831My dear Sir ,I have been in Paris for six days. One of my first acts here was t o speakto my fathers concerning the conversations I had with you i n London. One ofmy first tasks was to prepare for you a letter which would make known ourviews on the future of humanity, our ways of regenerating it definitely andcompletely for the greatest happiness of all, and which would make known toyou our faith, our hopes, our life, which would sum up what I have alreadytold you on the doctrine of our master and at the same time would be theanswer to the declaration of our promises such as you communicated to mebefore I left for London on the third of this month. Now not only to fulfill thepromise I made you in which I promised to communicate to you the St.Simonist judgement. In doing so I am satisfying the most sacred need of myheart, the holiest of my duties, the order of those who gave me the greatmission of an apostle of the defxntive religion of humanity. Ask our friendsMr. and Mrs. Crellin to translate it for you into English.After studying it ask your interests, ask your feelings, those noblefeelings, that love of humanity of which all your life is such a glowing witness,ask them the answer. And give me the answer, give it as soon as possible, yesas soon as possible. The heart rending cry of the whole1of society by which weare surrounded, given over to selfishness, the agonising cry of those whocreating all wealth, dying of hunger, capable of knowing all truth and beinganimated by the purest love are plunged in the deepest misery, brutalized byignorance, depraved by life; the sufferings of those with whom we sympathizemakes us all act as promptly as possible.