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244love you will find among us the consolation of your family sorrows, you willfind the love of that dear person whose loss make you shed so many tears.Did she love humanity? Did she love you? Was she loved by you?Madame, she is not dead. She lives among us and in us. Enough, enough ofsorrowful tears and despair. Give over your heart to joy and hope. You willfind what you have been seeking.Mother Bazard, as I promised you I would ask her, would have alreadywritten you but she is now making an apostolic trip to southern France. I hopethat soon receive some word from you, and I beg you to write it as soon aspossible. Write in English if that is easier for you, but tell me all that you thinkabout our doctrine, all that you feel.Oh, that you might tell me that you already feel within you the life ofSt. Simonism and all its hopes, all its strength, all its divine warmth. What joyit would be for me to have begotten you in this new custom (?) to make youreborn for humanity, for you, for God, to be your father in St. Simon.B. J.(MSS 8626, pp. 9, 10, 11, 12, CRR)