Les Lettres Provinciales de Blaise Pascal (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Les Lettres Provinciales De Blaise Pascal <p>Again, Protestant writers are generally agreed in con demning Probabilism out of hand. That I am unable to do. It is not Probabilism, as it seems to me, that is to blame for the lax morality which shocked Pascal and must shock all right-thinking men, but its unscrupulous application in a corrupt age to the system of universal and compulsory confession. The point is controversial and important, and I have devoted a good deal of space to it in the Introduction. In dealing with it I have drawn freely on the learning and sound judgment of my friend Mr. E. J. Thomas, of Em manuel College, as on the question of Grace I have benefited from hints given me by a master of doctrinal theology, Dr. J. F. Bethune-baker, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity. I desire gratefully to declare these and all my borrowings. For the use made of them I am alone responsible. <p>The text of the eighteen Letters is that of a set of the original pamphlets now in my possession and formerly hé longing to Mr. Huth. The old' orthography has been kept except the i's and a's which seventeenth century printers used for j's and o's. The punctuation on the other hand is modern ized, for it seems certain that the value of the points was different then from what it is to-day. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>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.