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P. 2. Pascal's Profession of Faith. A few days after Pascal's death, a servant discovered this profession sewed into a fold of his master's waistcoat, pourpoint. It was written on parchment, with a copy on paper. His family believed that he had carefully placed this in each new garment, desiring to have always about him the memorial of the great spiritual crisis.
P. 3, l. 32. Dereliquerunt me. Jer. li. 13.
P. 3. General Introduction. In this are apparently two drafts of the same preface, the second beginning with the paragraph "Before entering," p. 9, l. 6. M. Faugère was the first to recognize the true character of this sketch, which has borne various titles. The Port Royal edition called it: "Against the Indifference of Atheists;" Condorcet headed it: "On the Need of Concern for the Proofs of a Future Life;" Bossut: "On the Need of a Study of Religion." See [note on p. 61].
P. 3, l. 8. Deus absconditus. Is. xlv. 15. Vere tu es Deus absconditus, Deus Israel salvator.
P. 11. Notes for the General Introduction. The fragments following are thus arranged by Molinier as having been in his judgment intended for and many of them expanded in the preceding Preface.
P. 12, l. 23. Miton was a man of fashion at Paris, a friend of Pascal's friend, the Chevalier de Méré.
P. 17. Preface to the First Part. This is Pascal's own title to the section.
P. 17, l. 2. Charron, Pierre, was born at Paris in 1541. He was a friend of Montaigne, whose philosophy he adopted. His Traité de la Sagesse, Bordeaux, 1601, is the work of whose elaborate divisions Pascal complains.