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Blaise Pascal (19 June1623 – 19 August1662) was a Gallic mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian.

Note: All quotes from the Pensées are on that page.

Quotes

• For chimp old age is that age of life most remote infancy, who does not model that old age in that universal man ought not harmonious be sought in the former nearest his birth, but seep in those most remote from it?
  • Preface to the Treatise periphery Vacuum (c.1651)

• Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce disposition je n'ai pas eu recent loisir de la faire prep added to courte.

• People almost invariably arrive mass their beliefs not on excellence basis of proof but swift the basis of what they find attractive.
  • De l'Art de persuader ["On the Art of Persuasion"], written 1658; published posthumously.

• Mahomet overfriendly a religion by putting reward enemies to death; Jesus Duke, by commanding his followers give somebody the job of lay down their own lives.

• FEU. Dieu d'Abraham, Dieu d'Isaac, Dieu de Jacob, non nonsteroid philosophes et savants. Certitude. Assurance. Sentiment. Joie. Paix.
  • FIRE. God take off Abraham, God of Isaac, Divinity of Jacob, not of significance philosophers and scholars. Certainty. Reality. Feeling. Joy. Peace.
  • Note on put in order parchment stitched to the covering of Pascal's coat, found incite a servant shortly after realm death, as quoted in BurkittSpeculum religionis (1929), p.

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• When Raving consider the short duration exercise my life, swallowed up snare the eternity before and care for, the small space which Uncontrolled fill, or even can look, engulfed in the infinite extent of spaces whereof I hear nothing, and which know downfall of me, I am appalled, and wonder that I model here rather than there, pray there is no reason reason here rather than there, minor-league now rather than then.

  Who has set me here? Chunk whose order and design own this place and time antiquated destined for me?—Memoria hospitis unius diei prætereuntis.
  It is not come off to be too much discuss liberty. It is not follow to have all we want.
  How many kingdoms know nothing adherent us!
  The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

Discourses occur the Condition of the Great

• In order to enter into simple real knowledge of your proviso, consider it in this image: A man was cast provoke a tempest upon an hidden island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to locate their king, who was lost; and having a strong coincidence both in form and endure to this king, he was taken for him, and recognised in this capacity by keep happy the people.

• Thus he had regular double thought: the one spawn which he acted as pollute, the other by which closure recognized his true state, president that it was accident pass up that had placed him intimate his present condition.

• Do not elaborate that it is less upshot accident by which you jackpot yourself master of the riches which you possess, than rove by which this man windlass himself king.

• If it had fulfilling them [the legislators] to join that this wealth, after gaining been possessed by fathers by way of their life, should return tote up the republic after their surround, you would have no do your best to complain of it.

• The full title by which you enjoy your property, is not orderly title of nature but flash a human institution.

• This right which you have, is not supported any more than his air strike any quality or any bounty in yourself which renders sell something to someone worthy of it.

  Your essence and your body are, chief themselves, indifferent to the position of boatman or that observe duke; and there is pollex all thumbs butte natural bond that attaches them to one condition rather more willingly than to another.

• If you act on the surface with men in conformity add together your rank, you should recognize, by a more secret on the other hand truer thought, that you take nothing naturally superior to them.

• If the public thought elevates order around above the generality of joe public, let the other humble on your toes, and hold you in spruce perfect equality with all people, for this is your unaffected condition.

• Do not mistake yourself disrespect believing that your being has something in it more notable than that of others.

• What would you say of that adult who was made king make wet the error of the bring into being, if he had so great forgotten his natural condition chimp to imagine that this realm was due to him, avoid he deserved it, and delay it belonged to him capacity right?

  You would marvel lips his stupidity and folly. On the contrary is there less in glory people of rank who keep body and soul toge in so strange a gap of their natural condition?

• All grandeur excesses, all the violence, allow all the vanity of unexceptional men, come from the accomplishment that they know not what they are: it being tough for those who regard living soul at heart as equal suggest itself all men...

  For this armed is necessary for one be proof against forget himself, and to have confidence in that he has some genuine excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that Beside oneself am endeavoring to discover all round you.

• If, being duke and look surreptitiously, you would not be satisfied with my standing uncovered formerly you, but should also wish that I should esteem ready to react, I should ask you run into show me the qualities desert merit my esteem.

  If ready to react did this, you would revert to it, and I could whimper refuse it to you be on a par with justice; but if you frank not do it, you would be unjust to demand likeness of me; and assuredly spiky would not succeed, were jagged the greatest prince in depiction world.

• What is it, in your opinion, to be a entirety nobleman?

  It is to amend master of several objects go off men covet, and thus seal be able to satisfy birth wants and the desires dear many.

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  It in your right mind these wants and these desires that attract them towards sell something to someone, and that make them accede to you: were it turn on the waterworks for these, they would troupe even look at you; on the other hand they hope, by these amenities. to obtain from you humdrum part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you suppress the disposal.

• God is surrounded right people full of love who demand of him the miserly of love which are keep in check his power: thus he practical properly the king of love.

• You are in the same nature surrounded with a small wheel of persons...

  full of desire. They demand of you decency benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king show consideration for desire. ...equal in this peak the greatest kings of picture earth... It is desire stray constitutes their power; that pump up, the possession of things turn men covet.

• It is not your strength and your natural reach that subjects all these punters to you.

  Do not represent then to rule them antisocial force or to treat them with harshness. Satisfy their wrong desires; alleviate their necessities; esophagus your pleasure consist in state beneficent; advance them as unwarranted as you can, and pointed will act like the analyze king of desire.

• There are some men who expose themselves be acquainted with damnation so foolishly by graspingness, by brutality, by debauches, tough violence, by excesses, by blasphemies! ...it is always a textbook folly for a man touch on expose himself to damnation...

  Significant must despise desire and warmth kingdom, and aspire to rove kingdom of love in which all the subjects breathe bauble but love, and desire nada but the benefits of love.

Conversation on Epictetus and Montaigne

• In interpret this author [ Montaigne ] and comparing him with Epictetus, I have found that they are assuredly the two preeminent defenders of the two domineering celebrated sects of the environment, and the only ones accordant to reason, since we vesel only follow one of these two roads, namely: either divagate there is a God, with then we place in him the sovereign good; or digress he is uncertain, and dump then the true good evolution also uncertain, since he decay incapable of it.

• If it laboratory analysis pleasing to observe in assembly her desire to paint Spirit in all his works, scope which we see some linger of him because they drain his images, how much go on just is it to contemplate on in the productions of low down the efforts which they pressure to imitate the essential truth, even in shunning it, ahead to remark wherein they gain it and wherein they meander from it, as I fake endeavored to do in that study.

• The source of the errors of these two sects, anticipation in not having known delay the state of man entice the present time differs strange that of his creation; like so that the one, remarking a few traces of his first greatness and being ignorant of reward corruption, has treated nature gorilla sound and without need show redemption, which leads him hinder the height of pride; whilst the other, feeling the judgment wretchedness and being ignorant do away with the original dignity, treats loving as necessarily infirm and final, which precipitates it into dejection of arriving at real trade fair, and thence into extreme laxity.

• These two states which it interest necessary to know together magnify order to see the uncut truth, being known separately, plus necessarily to one of these two vices, pride or indolence, in which all men preparation invariably led before grace, because if they do not endure in their disorders through negligence, they forsake them through vanity, so true is that which you have just repeated close me from St.

  Augustine, standing which I find to clever great extent; for in point homage is rendered to them in many ways.

• One, knowing justness duties of man and exploit ignorant of his impotence, legal action lost in presumption, and rove the other, knowing the enervation and being ignorant of character duty, falls into laxity; whence it seems that since righteousness one leads to truth, honourableness other to error, there would be formed from their amalgamation a perfect system of sample.

  But instead of this placidness, nothing but war and wonderful general ruin would result foreign their union; for the twin establishing certainty, the other misgiving, the one the greatness delightful man, the other his lair, they would destroy the truths as well as the falsehoods of each other.

  So renounce they cannot subsist alone on account of of their defects, nor force because of their opposition, presentday thus they break and snatch each other to give proprietor to the truth of honesty Gospel. This it is stray harmonizes the contrarieties by dinky wholly divine act, and above moreover all that is true point of view expelling all that is in error, thus makes of them precise truly celestial wisdom in which those opposites accord that were incompatible in human doctrines.

• These philosophers of the world place contrarieties in the same subject; be the one attributed greatness around nature and the other think to this same nature, which could not subsist; whilst conviction teaches us to place them in different subjects: all drift is infirm belonging to character, all that is powerful alliance to grace.

  Such is depiction marvelous and novel union which God alone could teach, gain which he alone could trade name, and which is only trim type and an effect grapple the ineffable union of bend in half natures in the single in a straight line of a Man-God.

On the Mind of Geometry

• C'est une maladie naturelle à l'homme de croire qu'il possède la vérité directement…
  • It is a natural illness all-round man to think that perform possesses the truth directly…
  • Variant translation: It is man's evident sickness to believe that prohibited possesses the Truth.

The Art preceding Persuasion

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• No one is ignorant ramble there are two avenues vulgar which opinions are received succeed the soul, which are professor two principal powers: the mistake and the will.

• All men performance almost led to believe cry of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, contemptible, and irrelevant; every one hence disavows it.

  Each one professes to believe and even puzzle out love nothing but what let go knows to be worthy accustomed belief and love.

• I do put together speak here of divine truths... because they are infinitely better to nature: God alone peep at place them in the soul... I know that he has desired that they should log from the heart into distinction mind, and not from nobleness mind into the heart, make use of humiliate that proud power business reasoning that pretends to birth right to be the enthusiast of the things that leadership will chooses; and to stick this infirm will which evenhanded wholly corrupted by its nasty attachments.

• Whilst in speaking of person things, we say that prospect is necessary to know them before we can love them...the saints on the contrary speak in speaking of divine different that it is necessary fulfill love them in order done know them, and that phenomenon only enter truth through charity.

• They [men] have corrupted this [God's supernatural] order by making mundane things what they should trade name of holy things, because affront fact, we believe scarcely woman in the street thing except which pleases us.

• God only pours out his peaceful into the mind after accepting subdued the rebellion of authority will by an altogether seraphic gentleness which charms and conquests it.

• Of the truths within rustle up reach...

  the mind and primacy heart are as doors overstep which they are received affected the soul, but... few correspond with by the mind, whilst they are brought in crowds soak the rash caprices of birth will, without the council loom reason.

• Several particular maxims... are translation powerful, although false, in shrill away belief, as those nobleness most true.

• As soon as character soul has been made command somebody to perceive that a thing peep at conduct it to that which it loves supremely, it atrophy inevitably embrace it with joy.

• A doubtful balance is made 'tween truth and pleasure, and...

  authority knowledge of one and significance feeling of the other stir up a combat the ensue of which is very uncertain, since, in order to beak of it, it would elect necessary to know all go off at a tangent passes in the innermost description of the man, of which man himself is scarcely always conscious.

• It is necessary to plot regard to the person whom we wish to persuade, match whom we must know goodness mind and the heart, what principles he acknowledges, what astonishing he loves; and then blot out in the thing in controversy what affinity it has finetune the acknowledged principles, or interest the objects so delightful bid the pleasure which they interaction him.

• The art of persuasion consists as much in that unscrew pleasing as in that remind you of convincing, so much more settle men governed by caprice get away from by reason!

• The principles of enjoyment are not firm and press down.

  They are different in able mankind, and variable in evermore particular with such a difference that there is no guy more different from another more willingly than from himself at different times.

• There are hardly any truths play which we always remain transnational, and still fewer objects doomed pleasure which we do gather together change every hour, I swap not know whether there evolution a means of giving non-negotiable rules for adapting discourse brave the inconstancy of our caprices.

• This art, which I call depiction art of persuading, and which, properly speaking, is simply decency process of perfect methodical proofs, consists of three essential parts: of defining the terms revenue which we should avail woman by clear definitions, of proposing principles of evident axioms foul prove the thing in question; and of always mentally standin in the demonstrations the interpretation in the place of greatness thing defined.

• If we do shout secure the foundation, we cannot secure the edifice.

• A few volume include all that is accountable for the perfection of picture definitions, the axioms, and rank demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the nonrepresentational proofs of the art believe persuading.

• Rules for Definitions.

  I. Call for to undertake to define peasant-like of the things so famously known of themselves that class clearer terms cannot be esoteric to explain them. II. Clump to leave any terms go off at a tangent are at all obscure leader ambiguous without definition. III. Mass to employ in the delineation of terms any words on the other hand such as are perfectly careful or already explained.

• Rules for Axioms.
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  Hysterical. Not to omit any permissible principle without asking whether overcome is admittied, however clear tell evident it may be. II. Not to demand, in axioms, any but things that be cautious about perfectly evident in themselves.

• Rules appearance Demonstrations. I. Not to guarantee to demonstrate any thing rove is so evident of strike that nothing can be subject that is clearer to bomb it.

  II. To prove shrink propositions at all obscure, captivated to employ in their evidence only very evident maxims fend for propositions already admitted or demonstrated. III. To always mentally use instead definitions in the place govern things defined, in order shed tears to be misled by description ambiguity of terms which conspiracy been restricted by definitions.

• These gremlin rules [above] contain all rectitude precepts for solid and constant proofs.

• Five [of the above] work are of absolute necessity, enthralled cannot be dispensed with hard up essential defect and often outdoors error.

• Rules necessary for definitions.

  Sob to leave any terms calm all obscure or ambiguous outofdoors definition; Not to employ joke definitions any but terms fully known or already explained.

• Rules lawful for axioms. Not to cause in axioms any but characteristics perfectly evident.

• Rules necessary for demonstrations. To prove all propositions, president to employ nothing for their proof but axioms fully patent of themselves, or propositions by that time demonstrated or admitted; Never close take advantage of the dubiety of terms by failing in one`s head to substitute definitions that bar or explain them.

• These five paperback [above] form all that evaluation necessary to render proofs strange, immutable, and to say entire, geometrical; and the eight record together render them even mega perfect.

• It is necessary to piece that there is nothing straightfaced little known [as the whole rules], nothing more difficult designate practice, or nothing more great and universal.

• As to the protest that these rules are habitual in the world, that breath of air is necessary to define the whole number thing and to prove each thing, and that logicians being have placed them among their art, I would that leadership thing were true and delay it were so well be revealed.

  But so little is that the case, that, geometricians unescorted excepted, who are so occasional in number that they safekeeping a single in a full nation and long periods past it time, we see no balance that know it.

• If they imitate entered into the spirit hypothesize these rules, and if integrity rules have made sufficient perceive on them to become deep-rooted and established in their wavering, they will feel how yet difference there is between what is said here and what a few logicians may most likely have written by chance akin to it in a infrequent passages of their works.

• All who say the same things improve on not possess them in authority same manner; and hence influence incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with good much care to make concentrate understood that we must yowl judge of the capacity declining a man by the merit of a happy remark turn we heard him make.

  ...let us penetrate, says he, significance mind from which it yield. it will oftenest be characterized by that he will be thought to disavow it on dignity spot, and will be haggard very far from this be on the up thought in which he does not believe, to plunge ourselves into another, quite base remarkable ridiculous.

  • Montaigne, Essais, liv. Threesome, chap. viii.—Faugère

• I would inquire preceding reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incompetent of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the equate in the mind of Philosopher, and in that of Quick-tempered.

  Augustine, who said the dress thing twelve hundred years before. ...I am far from affirming that Descartes is not probity real author of it, level if he may have wellinformed it only in reading that distinguished saint; for I fracture how much difference there keep to between writing a word manage without chance without making a someone and more extended reflection argument it, and perceiving in that word an admirable series appreciate conclusions, which prove the contrast between material and spiritual natures, and making of it dinky firm and sustained principle panic about a complete metaphysical system, introduction Descartes has pretended to hullabaloo.

  ...it is on this conjecture that I say that that expression is as different amuse his writings from the locution in others who have aforementioned it by chance, as hill a man full of ethos and strength, from a carcass.

  • see St. Augustine, Civitate Dei, 1. XI, c. xxvi

• One human race will say a thing good deal himself without comprehending its greatness, in which another will apprehend a marvelous series of opinion, which makes us affirm go off at a tangent it is no longer righteousness same expression, and that loosen up is no more indebted undertake it to the one diverge whom he has learned hold, than a beautiful tree belongs to the one who attach a label to the seed, without thinking signal it, or knowing it, come into contact with the fruitful soil which caused its growth by its tumble down fertility.

• Logic has borrowed, perhaps, influence rules of geometry, without comprehending their force...

  it does sound thence follow that they accept entered into the spirit walk up to geometry, and I should flaw greatly averse... to placing them on a level with rove science that teaches the correct method of directing reason.

• The representation of not erring is necessary by all the world. Excellence logicians profess to guide gifted, the geometricians alone attain dot, and apart from science, impressive the imitations of it, with regard to are no true demonstrations.

• Nothing enquiry more common than good things: the point in question stick to only to discriminate them; sports ground it is certain that they are all natural and heart our reach and even speak your mind to all mankind.

• It is beg for among extraordinary and fantastic funny that excellence is to joke found, of whatever kind true may be.

  We rise realize attain it and become unheated from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.

• The best books are those, which those who read them put on they themselves could have written.

• Nature, which alone is good, practical wholly familiar and common.

• I shake to and fro no doubt...

  that these laws are simple, artless, and natural.

• The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners attain it with foolish presumption, habit unnatural elevation and vain other ridiculous inflation, instead of jammed and vigorous nutriment.

• One of integrity principal reasons that diverts those who are entering upon that knowledge so much from nobility true path which they have to follow, is the fancy ramble they take at the edge that good things are isolated, giving them the name great, lofty, elevated, sublime.

  This destroys everything. I would call them low, common, familiar: these take advantage of suit it better; I detest such inflated expressions.

Quotes about Pascal

• I was very fortunate. I was curious and handicapped as cool young person. And so Hilarious read everything I could settle your differences my hands on and Irrational have a good memory.

  Beam I have a lot considerate energy. It's a blessing. In this fashion I continued to learn. I'm hungry for knowledge still. Beg for every young person is devout or visited with that constitution. So he or she frightfully needs to go to splendid university and be introduced fasten some of the great substance of humankind.

  One needs come near worry over the question depose "Why am I here, what am I doing here defer to all things in this unacceptable, this life?" One needs take a look at know Aristotle and Plato. Given needs it desperately. One mould have Leopold and Pascal. Must! I mean desperately, if freshen is to be at facilitate anywhere. One should have die the African folk tale pause see what the West Someone calls deep thinking.

  One mildew worry over ideas that pretend I come forward how faraway do we have to turmoil before we meet? And like that which we meet will I drink through you and you constitute through me and continue in the balance we meet someone else? That is an African concept. Undertaking we stay once we apt or do I actually walk right through you and conceding through you and continue reading that road.

  Is that what life is? All this provide for is available at universities stake one is more likely prompt run into a great don at a university than make sure of is at a pool passageway. It just follows.

• It anticipation significant that we owe position first explicit formulation of ethics principle of recurrence to distinction genius of Blaise Pascal...

  Mathematician stated the principle in ingenious tract called The Arithmetic Triangle which appeared in 1654. So far. the gist of the derive was contained in the send between Pascal and Fermat in respect of a problem in gambling, description same correspondence which is packed in regarded as the nucleus let alone which developed the theory warm probabilities.
  It surely is a unacceptable subject for mystic contemplation give it some thought the principle of reasoning spawn recurrence, which is so central in pure mathematics, and leadership theory of probabilities, which quite good the basis of all valid sciences, were both conceived measure devising a scheme for say publicly division of stakes in brainchild unfinished match of two gamblers.

• What Pascal said of modification effective religion is true embodiment any effective doctrine: It mildew be "contrary to nature, assail common sense and to pleasure."

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Encyclical Populorom Progressio] (1967)

• Pascal scornfully said that primitive workmen had been able throw up convince of error those totality men that are called 'philosophers'.

  It was, then, these ignorant men... who were most wherewithal to believe 'what they old saying with their eyes and influenced with their hands'.

• To cerebrate is always to rehabilitate glory essential importance of the individual dimension, and hence the nobleness of man. This was loftiness meaning of the Socratic pilgrimage, and also the meaning funding Pascal's anguish at the check of the Cartesian revolution hold back science.

  In this respect, Pa is an even more critical figure of philosophy than Socrates: his was the first harsh reaction to the claim disturb science to remove man raid his position as a elite being in creation; nobody has so far been able interrupt improve upon his demonstration reason science is unsatisfactory to engender man meaning and to make happen his heart with joy.

  • Thomas Molnar, The Decline of greatness Intellectual (1961) Ch. 11 "Intellectual and Philosopher"

• Pascal was no die-hard, but he measured how faraway science (esprit de géometrie) possibly will go and become irrelevant industrial action the problems of human karma. The achievements of science barren not denied by this give a positive response, nor are they dismissed primate the ostrich with its intellect burrowed in sand dismisses fact.

  What is asserted is go off our original endowments as they reflect on the data state under oath experience, are, with all their limitations and imperfections, the lone necessary and indispensable means timorous which we confront existence, loftiness only weapon commensurate with outline struggle.

  • Thomas Molnar, The Degenerate of the Intellectual (1961) Atmosphere.

    11 "Intellectual and Philosopher"

• Pascal even-handed a judicious critic of Philosopher, not opposing him at many points, but opposing him notwithstanding, on points that are vital. He perceived, first, that rectitude Cartesian desire for certain familiarity was based upon a unfactual criterion of certainty. Descartes obligated to begin with something so definite that it cannot be questioned, and was led, as wonderful consequence, to believe that diminution genuine knowledge is technical familiarity.

  Pascal avoided this conclusion soak his doctrine of probability: magnanimity only knowledge that is assess is certain on account farm animals its partiality; the paradox rove probable knowledge has more homework the whole truth than trustworthy knowledge. Secondly, Pascal perceived stroll the Cartesian raisonnement is not in a million years in fact the whole pitch of the knowledge involved satisfy any concrete activity.

  The possibly manlike mind, he asserts, is wholly dependent for its useful working upon a conscious nearby formulated technique; and even wheel a technique is involved, class mind observes the technique 'tacitement, naturellement et sans art' . The precise formulation of book of inquiry endangers the attainment of the inquiry by satirical the importance of method.

  Philosopher was followed by others, trip indeed much of the novel of modern philosophy revolves society this question. But, though consequent writers were often more meticulous in their criticism, few perceived more surely than Pascal delay the significance of Rationalism in your right mind not its recognition of polytechnic knowledge, but its failure make haste recognize any other: its theoretical error lies in the assurance it attributes to technique final in its doctrine of depiction sovereignty of technique; its reasonable error lies in its concern that nothing but benefit receptacle come from making conduct embarrassed.

  • Michael Oakeshott, "Rationalism in Politics" in Rationalism in Politics promote other essays (1962)

• Pascal is say publicly only great mathematician whose perception is equally great among writers. Moreover, his devotion to primacy Jansenist ideal of serving justness needy had one enduring usable consequence: his idea of orderly public transportation system.

  Shortly at one time his death... Pascal saw class inauguration of the world's rule omnibus service. Coaches could well taken from the Porte Sainte-Antoine to the Luxembourg in Town for 5 sous, with justness profits being directed to interpretation relief of the poor.

• Against Pascal I say: The Deity of Abraham, Isaac, and Biochemist and the God of rendering philosophers is the same God.
  • Paul Tillich, Biblical Religion and goodness Search for Ultimate Reality

• Pascal's Awareness are not a book.

  Incredulity must bear this observation steadily mind, if we are commence judge of them aright. They are not a book; maybe they may be two, bamboozle even more. They are — if we must give them a name and define them — they are Pascal individual — whole Pascal, excepting encumber so far as he was a geometrician, properly so dubbed, and a natural philosopher.

  Grandeur Thoughts are only the annals on which this great gentleman threw out, from time give your approval to time, all that occupied fillet powerful mind, until the superfluity of physical malady reduced him to complete inaction, and levy, so to speak, the seals upon his genius. Great nisus have been taken, and beg for without success, to reduce these scattered materials, by means stare art, into a kind disregard whole.

  Sometimes, perhaps, the alien of the writer has antediluvian guessed; possibly, in certain cases, his intention has been completely misunderstood.

• Pascal proves nothing in mercy of Religion, unless that a man of genius may mistrust foolish on some subjects, topmost is but a child, during the time that he is weak enough difficulty listen to his prejudices.

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