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Now the great adversary against whom Pascal set himself, from the time of his first conversations with M. de Saci at Port-Royal, was Montaigne. One cannot destroy Pascal, certainly; but of all authors Montaigne is one of the least destructible. You could as well dissipate a fog by flinging hand-grenades into it. For Montaigne is a fog, a gas, a fluid, insidious element. He does not reason, he insinuates, charms, and influences; or if he reasons, you must be prepared for his having some other design upon you than to convince you by his argument.
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[332] P. 247, l. 25. Nemo facit, etc.—Mark ix, 39.
[333] P. 247, l. 27. A sacred relic.—This is a reference to the miracle of the Holy Thorn. Marguerite Périer, Pascal's niece, was cured of a fistula lachrymalis on 24 March, 1656, after her eye was touched with this sacred relic, supposed to be a thorn from the crown of Christ. This miracle made a great impression upon Pascal.
[334] P. 248, l. 23. These nuns.—Of Port-Royal, as to which, see note on page 110, line 16, above. They were accused of Calvinism.
[335] P. 248, l. 28. Vide si, etc.—Ps. cxxxix, 24.
[336] P. 249, l. 1. Si tu, etc.—Luke xxii, 67.
[337] P. 249, l. 2. Opera quæ, etc.—John v, 36; x, 26-27.
[338] P. 249, l. 7. Nemo potest, etc.—John iii, 2.
[339] P. 249, l. 11. Generatio prava, etc.—Matthew xii, 39.
[340] P. 249, l. 14. Et non poterat facere.—Mark vi, 5.
[341] P. 249, l. 16. Nisi videritis, non creditis.—John iv, 8, 48.
[342] P. 249, l. 23. Tentat enim, etc.—Deut. xiii, 3.
[343] P. 249, l. 25. Ecce prædixi vobis: vos ergo videte.—Matthew xxiv, 25, 26.
[344] P. 250, l. 7. We have Moses, etc.—John ix, 29.
[345] P. 250, l. 30. Quid debui.—Is. v, 3, 4. The Vulgate is Quis est quod debui ultra facere vineæ meæ, et non feci ei.
[346] P. 251, l. 12. Bar-jesus blinded.—Acts xiii, 6-11.
[347] P. 251, l. 14. The Jewish exorcists.—Ibid., xix, 13-16.
[348] P. 251, l. 18. Si angelus.—Galatians i, 8.
[349] P. 252, l. 10. An angel from heaven.—See previous note.
[350] P. 252, l. 14. Father Lingende.—Claude de Lingendes, an eloquent Jesuit preacher, who died in 1660.
[351] P. 252, l. 33. Ubi est Deus tuus?—Ps. xiii, 3.
[352] P. 252, l. 34. Exortum est, etc.—Ps. cxii, 4.
[353] P. 253, l. 6. Saint Xavier.—Saint François Xavier, the friend of Ignatius Loyola, became a Jesuit.
[354] P. 253, l. 9. Væ qui, etc.—Is. x, I.
[355] P. 253, l. 24. The five propositions.—See Preface.
[356] P. 253, l. 36. To seduce, etc.—Mark xiii, 22.
[357] P. 254, l. 6. Si non fecissem.—John xv, 24.
[358] P. 255, l. 11. Believe in the Church.—Matthew xviii, 17-20.
[359] P. 257, l. 14. They.—The Jansenists, who believed in the system of evangelical doctrine deduced from Augustine by Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638), the Bishop of Ypres. They held that interior grace is irresistible, and that Christ died for all, in reaction against the ordinary Catholic dogma of the freedom of the will, and merely sufficient grace.
[360] P. 258, l. 4. A time to laugh, etc.—Eccles. iii, 4.
[361] P. 258, l. 4. Responde. Ne respondeas.—Prov. xxvi, 4, 5.
[362] P. 260, l. 3. Saint Athanasius.—Patriarch of Alexandria, accused of rape, of murder, and of sacrilege. He was condemned by the Councils of Tyre, Aries, and Milan. Pope Liberius is said to have finally ratified the condemnation in A.D. 357. Athanasius here stands for Jansenius, Saint Thersea for Mother Angélique, and Liberius for Clement IX.
[363] P. 261, l. 17. Vos autem non sic.—Luke xxii, 26.
[364] P. 261, l. 23. Duo aut tres in unum.—John x, 30; First Epistle of St. John, V, 8.
[365] P. 262, l. 18. The Fronde.—The party which rose against Mazarin and the Court during the minority of Louis XIV. They led to civil war.
[366] P. 262, l. 25. Pasce oves meas.—John xxi, 17.
[367] P. 263, l. 14. Jeroboam.—I Kings xii, 31.
[368] P. 265, l. 21. The servant, etc.—John xv, 15.
[369] P. 266, l. 4. He that is not, etc.—Matthew xii, 30.
[370] P. 266, l. 5. He that is not, etc.—Mark ix, 40.
[371] P. 266, l. 11. Humilibus dot gratiam.—James iv, 6.
[372] P. 266, l. 12. Sui eum non, etc.—John i, 11, 12.
[373] P. 266, l. 33. We will be as the other nations.—I Sam. viii, 20.
[374] P. 268, l. 19. Vince in bono malum.—Romans xii, 21.
[375] P. 268, l. 26. Montalte.—See note on page 6, line 30, above.
[376] P. 269, l. 11. Probability.—The doctrine in casuistry that of two probable views, both reasonable, one may follow his own inclinations, as a doubtful law cannot impose a certain obligation. It was held by the Jesuits, the famous religious order founded in 1534 by Ignatius Loyola. This section of the Pensées is directed chiefly against them.
[377] P. 269, l. 22. Coacervabunt sibi magistros.—2 Tim. iv, 3.
[378] P. 270, l. 3. These.—The writers of Port-Royal.
[379] P. 270, l. 15. The Society.—The Society of Jesus.
[380] P. 271, l. 15. Digna necessitas.—Book of Wisdom xix, 4.
INDEXThe figures refer to the numbers of the Pensées, and not to the pages.
Abraham,
took nothing for himself, 502;
from stones can come children unto, 777;
and Gideon, 821
Absolutions, without signs of regret, 903, 904
Act, the last, is tragic, 210
Adam,
compared with Christ, 551;
his glorious state, 559;
forma futuri, 655
Advent, the time of the first, foretold, 756
Age,
influences judgment, 381;
the six ages, 654
Alexander, the example of his chastity, 103
Amusements, dangerous to the Christian life, 11
Animals, intelligence and instinct of, 340, 342
Antichrist,
miracles of, foretold by Christ, 825;
will speak openly against God, 842;
miracles of, cannot lead into error, 845
Apocalyptics, extravagances of the, 650
Apostles,
hypothesis that they were deceivers, 571;
foresaw heresies, 578;
supposition that they were either deceived or deceivers, 801
Aquinas, Thomas, 61, 338
Arcesilaus, the sceptic, became a dogmatist, 375
Archimedes, greatness of, 792
Arians, where they go wrong, 861
Aristotle, and Plato, 331
Arius, miracles in his time, 831
Athanasius, St., 867
Atheism, shows a certain strength of mind, 225
Atheists,
who seek, to be pitied, 190;
ought to say what is perfectly evident, 221;
objections of, against the Resurrection and the Virgin Birth, 222, 223;
objection of, 228
Augustine, St.,
saw that we work for an uncertainty, 234;
on the submission of reason, 270;
on miracles, 811;
his authority, 868
Augustus, his saying about Herod's son, 179
Authority, in belief, 260
Authors, vanity of certain, 43
Automatism, human, 252
Babylon, rivers of, 459
Beauty,
a certain standard of, 32;
poetical, 33
Belief,
three sources of, 245;
rule of, 260;
of simple people, 284;
without reading the Testaments, 286;
the Cross creates, 587;
reasons why there is no, in the miracles, 825
Bias, leads to error, 98
Birth,
noble, an advantage, 322;
persons of high, honoured and despised, 337
Blame, and praise, 501
Blood, example of the circulation of, 96
Body,
nourishment of the, 356;
the, and its members, 475, 476;
infinite distance between mind and, 792
Brutes, no mutual admiration among the, 401
Cæsar, compared with Alexander and Augustus, 132
Calling, chance decides the choice of a, 97
Calvinism, error of, 776
Canonical, the heretical books prove the, 568
Carthusian monk, difference between a soldier and a, 538
Casuists,
true believers have no pretext for following their laxity, 888;
submit the decision to a corrupted reason, 906;
cannot give assurance to a conscience in error, 908;
allow lust to act, 913
Causes, seen by the intellect and not by the senses, 234
Catholic, the, doctrine, of the Holy Sacrament, 861
Ceremonies, ordained in the Old Testament, are types, 679
Certain, nothing is, 234
Chance,
according to the doctrine of chance, one should believe in God, 233;
and work for an uncertainty, 234;
and seek the truth, 236;
gives rise to thoughts, 370
Chancellor, the position of the, uneral, 307
Character, the Christian, the human, and the inhuman, 532
Charity,
nothing so like it as covetousness, 662;
not a figurative precept, 664;
the sole aim of the Scripture, 669
Charron, the divisions of, 62
Children,
frightened at the face they have blackened, 88;
of Port-Royal, 151;
illustration of usurpation from, 295
China, History of, 592, 593
Christianity,
alone cures pride and sloth, 435;
is strange, 536;
consists in two points, 555;
evidence for, 563;
is wise and foolish, 587
Christians,
few true, 256;
without the knowledge of the prophecies and evidences, 287;
comply with folly, 338;
humility of, 537;
their hope, 539;
their happiness, 540;
the God of, 543
Church,
history of the, 857;
the, in persecution, like a ship in a storm, 858;
when in a good state, 860;
has always been attacked by opposite errors, 861;
the, and tradition, 866;
absolution and the, 869;
the Pope and the, 870;
the, and infallibility, 875;
true justice in the, 877;
the work of the, 880;
the discipline of the, 884;
the anathemas of the, 895
Cicero, false beauties in,
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