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John Tulloch. Pascal
Pascal
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. PASCAL’S FAMILY AND YOUTH
CHAPTER II. PASCAL’S SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES
CHAPTER III. PASCAL IN THE WORLD
CHAPTER IV. PORT ROYAL AND PASCAL’S LATER YEARS
CHAPTER V. THE ‘PROVINCIAL LETTERS.’
JESUIT LAXITY AND CHRISTIAN INDIGNATION
DEFENCE OF RIDICULE AS A WEAPON IN CONTROVERSY
APPEAL AGAINST THE JESUITS
CHAPTER VI. THE ‘PENSÉES.’
NOTES
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John Tulloch
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The character and conversation of these men made a deep impression upon the Pascal family. Hitherto esteemed pious, they had not yet made religion an anxious concern in their lives. Madame Périer says expressly of her brother that he had been “preserved by the special protection of God from all youthful vices, and, what was still more remarkable in the case of a mind of such strength and pride, he had never yielded to any libertinism of thought, but had always limited his curiosity to natural inquiries.” He attributed, according to her statement, this religious sobriety of mind to the instructions and example of his father, who had a great respect for religion, and who had impressed upon him from his infancy the maxim, “that whatever is the object of faith cannot be the object of reason, and still less the subject of it.” He had seen, in his father, the combination of scientific attainment with a strong reasoning power, and the maxim therefore fell with weight from his lips. And so, when he listened to the discourses of free-thinkers, young as he was—
“He remained unmoved by them, and simply looked upon them as men who had adopted the false principle that the human reason is above everything, and who know nothing of the real nature of faith; so that this spirit, so great and inquisitive, which searched so carefully for the reason of everything, was at the same time submissive as a child to all the truths of religion, and this submissive simplicity predominated in him through his whole life.” [18]
