Excerpt from Provincial Letters: Containing an Exposure of the Reasoning and Morals of the Jesuits Tm: name of pascal (that prodigy Of parts, as Locke calls says Mr. Dugald stew art, k is more familiar to modern ears than that of any of the other learned and polish ed anchorites who have rendered the sanc tuary of port-royal so illustrious. Abstract ing from his great merit in mathematics and in physics, his reputation nests chiefly on the Provincial Letters a work from which Vol taire, notwithstanding his strong prejudices against the Author, dates the firation of the French language; and Of which the same ex cellent judge has said, 'moliere's best co medies DO not excel them in war, nor the compositions OF Bossum'. M suntmrrr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.