Author: Pascal, Blaise
Title: Pensees de M. Pascal Sur la Religion; Et Sur Quelques Autres Sujets Qui Ont Esté Trouvées Aprés Sa Mort Parmy Ses Papiers
Description: Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1670. Vellum. pp. [41] ff; 365; [10] ff. 12mo. Contemporary vellum binding, with red leather title label, lettered in gilt. Tide mark to one corner of text block, affecting first 100 (or so) pages; very good. USTC 6070675. Counterfeit: with pagination matching the first edition, and including the errata on verso of Privilege, but woodcut on title page differing from that called-for (Tchemerzine 9:73). PMM 152: "The reader will find questions asked and unanswered which take him far beyond the age-old controversy between faith and reason, and an equally penetrating light cast on some relatively minor problem. Pascal's work has, in fact, the marks of a genius, exploring and stating all that can be said on both sides of the question it investigates. Since these are notes, unfinished, conclusions are not always reached. .

Keywords: Counterfeit; Pirated edition; Pascal; Christianity; Theology; Meditations;


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