The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

by Blaise Pascal

Pendent opera interrupta

LONDON

KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO.

MDCCCLXXXV

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[CONTENTS.]

		Page
Preface		[vii]
General Introduction		[1]
	Pascal's Profession of Faith	[2]
	General Introduction	[3]
	Notes for the General Introduction	[11]
The Misery of Man Without God		[15]
	Preface to the First Part	[17]
	Man's Disproportion	[19]
	Diversion	[33]
	The Greatness and Littleness of Man	[43]
	Of the Deceptive Powers of the Imagination	[51]
	Of Justice, Customs, and Prejudices	[61]
	The Weakness, Unrest, and Defects of Man	[73]
The Happiness of Man with God		[89]
	Preface to the Second Part	[91]
	Of the Need of Seeking Truth	[95]
	The Philosophers	[105]
	Thoughts on Mahomet and on China	[115]
	Of the Jewish People	[119]
	The Authenticity of the Sacred Books	[125]
	The Prophecies	[131]
	Of Types in General and of their Lawfulness	[157]
	That the Jewish Law was Figurative	[167]
	Of the True Religion and its Characteristics	[179]
	The Excellence of the Christian Religion	[183]
	Of Original Sin	[191]
	The Perpetuity of the Christian Religion	[197]
	Proofs of the Christian Religion	[203]
	Proofs of the Divinity of Jesus Christ	[213]
	The Mission and Greatness of Jesus Christ	[225]
	The Mystery of Jesus	[231]
	Of the True Righteous Man and of the True Christian	[237]
	The Arrangement	[253]
	Of Miracles in General	[257]
	Jesuits and Jansenists	[273]
	Thoughts on Style	[301]
	Various Thoughts	[307]
Notes		[317]
Index		[339]

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