Excerpt from Pascal Il me para t, dit Voltaire, qu'en g n ral, l'esprit dans lequel M. Pascal crivit ses Pens es tait de mon trer l'homme dans un jour odieux; il s'acharne nous peindre tous m chants et malheureux* Il crit contre la nature humaine peu pr s comme il crivait contre les j suites. Il impute l'essence de notre nature ce qui n'appartient qu' certains hommes il dit loquemment des injures au genre humain. J'ose prendre. Le parti de l'humanit contre ce misanthrope sublime'. Pascal, dit M. Cousin, respire le scepticisme; il en est plein; il en proclame le principe, il en accepte toutes les cons quences, et il le pousse d'abord son dernier terme, qui est le m pris avou et presque la haine de la philo sophie. Oui, Pascal est nu ennemi d clar de la philo Sophie 2. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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