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Jacqueline Pascal, in which he has made a diligent use of all the recent French authorities on the subject.

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Blaise Pascal. There is hardly any name more famous at once in literature, science, and religion. Cut off at the early age of thirtynine the fatal age of genius he had long before attained pre-eminent distinction as a geometer and dis coverer in ghysicalscience; while the rumour of his genius as the author of the Provincial Letters and as one of the chiefs of a notable school of religious thought, had spread far and wide. His writings contimu Ttc Tbe studied for the perfection of their style and the vitality of their substance. As a writer, he belongs to no school, and is admired simply for his greatness by Encyclo pedist and Romanticist, by Catholic and Protestant alike, by men like Voltaire and Condorcet and Sainte Beuve, no less than by men like Bossuct, Vinet, and Meander. His Pensees have been carefully restored, and re-edited with minute and loving faithfulness in our time by editors of such opposite tastes and tendencies as M. Prosper Faugere, M. Havet, and M. Victor Rochet. F.C. m.
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