In the series of "Les Classiques Francais," edited by H.
Warner
Allen M. Dent and Son)," we have Les Pensees Choisies de Pascal, with a Preface, only too brief, by Dr. Emile Boutroux, is. 6d. net. We may quote a few lines from the conclusion in which he sums up Pascal's teaching. Pascal's religious method, he says, " con- sista h aller de l'homme a Dieu, au lien d'essayer de demontrer directement la verite des dogmes revel's." His conception of man is not the Greek harmony of life and reason, but " un etre Issentiellement contradictoire tout de bassesse et de grandeur, Thumanite et de divinite." Being such, he cannot be content. ' Contradiction engendre mouvement. L'homme, en vertu de son essence meme, cherche quelque part un point d'appui pour creer en soi uno harmonie et un paix qua lui refuse la nature.' One could hardly begin to study Pascal under better guidance.
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