Pensees de M. Pascal, sur la Religion et sur quelques autres Sujets. Nouvelle Edition, Augmentee d'un grand nombre de Pensees, qui sont tirees du Recueil de ses Oeuvres; avec une nouvelle Table des Matieres beaucoup plus ample.

cxii, 475 pp. 12mo. French text. Original full tree calf, gilt titles and decorations, burgundy morocco spine label. "Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. "The Pensees" is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and - above all - theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but who can be transformed through faith in God's grace."