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CONTENTS

Thoughts

• Section I.
  Thoughts on Mind and Style . . . . . . . . . 9
• Section II.
  The Misery of Man without God . . . . . . . . . 24
• Section III.
  Of the Necessity of the Wager . . . . . . . . . 68
• Section IV.
  Of the Means of Belief . . . . . . . . . 90
• Section V.
  Justice and the Reason of Effects . . . . . . . . . 103
• Section VI.
  The Philosophers . . . . . . . . . 117
• Section VII.
  Morality and Doctrine . . . . . . . . . 136
• Section VIII.
  The Fundamentals of the Christian Religion . . . . . . . . . 181
• Section IX.
  Perpetuity . . . . . . . . . 193
• Section X.
  Typology . . . . . . . . . 214

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• Section XI.
  The Prophecies . . . . . . . . . 233
• Section XII.
  Proofs of Jesus Christ . . . . . . . . . 260
• Section XIII.
  The Miracles . . . . . . . . . 279
• Section XIV.
  AppendixL Polemical Fragments . . . . . . . . . 300

Letters

• 1 To His Sister Jacqueline . . . . . . . . . 321
• 2 To Mme. Perier . . . . . . . . . 323
• 3 To the Same . . . . . . . . . 326
• 4 To Mme. and M. Perier . . . . . . . . . 330
• 5 To M. Perier . . . . . . . . . 341
• 6 To Mme. Perier . . . . . . . . . 341
• 7 To the Marchioness de Sable . . . . . . . . . 342
• 8 To M. Perier . . . . . . . . . 342
• 9 To Mme. Perier . . . . . . . . . 344
• 10 To the Same . . . . . . . . . 346
• 11 To Mlle. de Roannez (nine letters) . . . . . . . . . 346
• 12 To Queen Christina . . . . . . . . . 359

Minor Works

• 1 Epitaph of M. Pascal, Pere . . . . . . . . . 365
• 2 Prayer, to Ask of God the Proper Use of Sickness . . . . . . . . . 366
• 3 Comparison Between Christians of Early Times and Those
          of To-Day . . . . . . . . . 374
• 4 Discourses on the Condition of the Great . . . . . . . . . 378
• 5 On the Conversion of the Sinner . . . . . . . . . 383
• 6 Conversation on Epictetus and Montaigne . . . . . . . . . 387

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• 7 The Art of Persuasion . . . . . . . . . 400
• 8 Discourse on the Passion of Love . . . . . . . . . 411
• 9 Of the Geometrical Spirit . . . . . . . . . 421
• 10 Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum . . . . . . . . . 437
• 11 New Fragment of the Treatise on Vacuum . . . . . . . . . 444

NOTE
Passages erased by Pascal are enclosed in square brackets, thus [ ]. Words, added or corrected by the editor of the text, are similarly denoted. The translation is from the text of Brunschvieg.