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Excerpt from French Prose Of The XVII Century: Selected And Edited With An Introduction And Notes
Pascali was a mathematician also, and, like Descartes and Montaigne, his study was the study of man. But his interest did not lie in the demonstration of man's existence, nor in noting man's ways and manners. His gaze was bent on the soul rather than the mind, and it was to the problem of the soul's salvation that he applied his energies. For mathematics could not satisfy his inner life, if it could Descartes' (see page 95, pensee The study that could engage Pascal, la science que l'homme doit avoir, was the study of the Cross. And it was to this that he gave the years of retreat which followed his conversion.
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