Blaise Pascal — translated by Thomas M’Crie (Robert Carter & Brothers, 1856), from Project Gutenberg.
Eighteen letters written anonymously and published one at a time during the Sorbonne’s proceedings against Antoine Arnauld: the first three defend the Jansenists of Port-Royal, and the rest turn on the moral theology of the Jesuits — probabilism, directing the intention, mental reservation — largely by the method of quoting it. Pascal’s own apology for them is the shortest: I have made this letter longer than usual because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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