Émile Chartier, known as ALAIN. Autograph manuscript, De l'Amour et de la Foi, [27 August 1920]; 3 pages in-8. "The type or model of all society is Maternity, because here egoism and altruism merge. Love itself is the feeling that comes closest to it. "Motherhood escapes any rule, because it is spontaneous and without any choice [...] but the other love wants a cult in the proper sense of the word", because it results from a choice, "fruit of will"; one needs will and "Fidelity to play the violin well, or to do anything well, and certainly also to think well." The pleasure of thinking is not conceived under constraint, "in the same way under oath one cannot know the pleasure of loving. [Faith does not need proofs. In every action, one must want and believe. Charity is a love entirely willed, which Hope carries, but it is Faith that carries both. And Faith is of will in what it is opposed to belief, which is only of nature". It remains that "Motherhood best represents all the possible perfection of our feelings and even of our thoughts. And there is a deep kinship between the religious feelings and the family feelings"... etc. A strip of paper stuck at the end of the letter hides some lines of sending of this "second chapter".