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which they sought to promulge. I will be the first to rend asunder this veil. As soon as the publication of your translation shall have proved to the English public that the intention of my teacher was not to destroy Christianity, but, on the contrary, to recall it to new life, as the basis of a new and grander Social System, in accordance with the wants of the age, I shall drop the denomination of St. Simonian, and summon all believers, as well as unbelievers, to range themselves under one banner, by the name of New Christians. Thus, the wish which you have expressed, in several of your able lectures and essays, will be fulfilled; that the distinctive name of all sects, who labour for social reform, should be lost, and comfounded in one general designation. And what name can be more holy, more beloved, and bid fairer for universality, than that of him, who sealed with his blood the principle of brotherhood among men—of him, whose life and actions will evermore be the standards of human perfection!
I remain, Sir,
Your faithful friend,
JOACHIM DE PRATI, LL.D.
