The Divinity of Our Lord Jesus: Pascal (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Converging and confederate evidences, Bishop Gibson and Edmund Burke; Pascal, clear as to what he knows, and cannot know; Insurmountable obstacle in the way of Voltaire and Condorcet; Inspires Nicolas, Hettinger, and Lacordaire; His Pensées merely private memoranda for Pascal's own use; His principle that folly is the malediction on revolt against reason; His independence of mind, a recommendation to many; His religious influence in France; Like that of Newton, Johnson and Burke in England; To Pascal and Dante, religion was the centre of life; His mathematical mind forces reason on to its conclusions; Some minds do not require such a master; Others, like St. Augustine, must be conquered by a superior; Pascal, arbiter between religion and modern philosophy

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