THE

THOUGHTS ON RELIGION,

AND

EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY,

OF

PASCAL;

(NEWLY TRANSLATED AND ARRANGED, WITH LARGE ADDITIONS FROM
ORIGINAL MSS;)

FROM THE FRENCH EDITION OF

M. P. FAUGERE.

WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, ETC.,

BY GEORGE PEARCE, ESQ.,

EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR OF "THE PROVINCIAL LETTERS, WITH VILLEMAIN'S ESSAY,
MEMOIR, ETC.;" AND OF "THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF PASCAL."

"Un monument qui n'est qu'une œuvre de restauration, mais qui durera, puisqu'il
enferme les reliques d'un des plus beaux génies qui aient honoré la France, et
l'humanité."-FAUGERE.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS;

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

MDCCCL.

LONDON:

R. NEEDHAM, PRINTER, PATERNOSTER-ROW

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION

PAGE

vii

FRAGMENTS OF AN APOLOGY FOR CHRIS-

TIANITY: OR, THOUGHTS ON RELIGION.

Editorial Notice

GENERAL PREFACE.

GENERAL PREFACE.

VARIATION OF THE GENERAL PREFACE

NOTES to the Preceding General Preface

FIRST PART.

MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD: OR,

NATURE CORRUPTED EVEN BY ITSELF.

CHAPTER II.-ON DECEPTIVE INFLUENCES.

(DES PUISSANCES TROMPEUSES.)

Editorial Notice.

ON DECEPTIVE INFLUENCES. Imagination-Self-

Love

CHAPTER III.-DISPROPORTIONS,

INEQUALITIES IN MAN.

PAGE

44

45

OR,

62

63

THE

GREATNESS AND

GREATNESS AND MISERY OF MAN.

SYSTEMS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS.-Stoics, Atheists,

78

SECOND PART.

HAPPINESS OF MAN WITH GOD; OR, A

REMEDY FURNISHED BY REVELATION.

PREFACE to the Second Part

113

CHAPTER I.—THAT MAN, WITHOUT FAITH, CAN

TRUE HAPPINESS NOR

THAT MAN, WITHOUT FAITH, CAN KNOW NEITHER TRUE

HAPPINESS NOR RECTITUDE

120

121

CHAPTER III.-MEANS OF ATTAINING TO FAITH:

REASON, HABIT, INSPIRATION.

Editorial Notice .

MEANS OF ATTAINING TO FAITH: Reason, Habit,

162