P. 69, l. 12. It is odd that Montaigne. Essais, l. i. ch. xlii.
P. 69, l. 16. When power attacks craft. Satyre Menippée, Harangue du Sire de Rieux: "il n'y a ny bonnet quarré, ny bourlet, que je ne face voler."
P. 69, l. 30. figmentum malum. Ps. ciii. 13. Quomodo miseretur pater filiorum, misertus est Dominus timentibus se: Quoniam ipse cognovit figmentum nostrum.
P. 70, l. 14. Savages laugh at an infant king. Pascal is alluding to the story in Montaigne, Essais, l. i. ch. xxx., of the savages presented to Charles IX. at Rouen, who were astonished to see bearded men obey a child.
P. 72, l. 16. Epictetus. See [p. 45], l. 30, in order to understand this somewhat enigmatic fragment. In the next paragraph is an allusion to the passage in which Epictetus says, l. iv. ch. 7, that the philosopher may well be constant and detached from life by wisdom, as were the Galilæans by their fanaticism.
P. 73. Weakness, unrest, and defects of man. The arrangements of these fragments under this title is Molinier's.
P. 73, l. 1. We anticipate the future. Compare Montaigne, Essais, l. i. ch. iii.
P. 74, l. 28. Alexander's chastity. To attribute this virtue to Alexander is strange, but no doubt the circumstance in Pascal's thought was his generous conduct to the family of Darius, after the battle of Issus.
P. 75, l. 12. the King of England. Probably Charles II., then living in exile, rather than Charles I. The King of Poland was Jean Casimir, driven from his throne by Charles X. of Sweden, after the battle of Warsaw in 1656. The Queen of Sweden was Christina, daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, who abdicated in favour of her cousin, Charles X., in 1654.
P. 75, l. 29. we shall die alone, "on mourra seul." It is a curious instance of the fact how little Pascal is known in England, that Keble having quoted this sentence wrongly, probably from memory, in the first edition of the Christian Year, as "Je mourrai seul," it has remained uncorrected and apparently unnoticed to this day.