cal's biblical quotations
are often incorrect. Many seem to have been made from memory.
[93] P. 71, l. 30. _Those who seek God find Him._--Matthew vii, 7.
[94] P. 72, l. 3. _Vere tu es Deus absconditus._--Is. xiv, 15.
[95] P. 72, l. 22. _Ne evacuetur crux Christi._--I Cor. i, 17. In the
Vulgate we have_ut non_ instead of _ne_.
[96] P. 72, l. 25. _The machine._--A Cartesian expression. Descartes
considered animals as mere automata. According to Pascal, whatever
does not proceed in us from reflective thought is a product of a
necessary mechanism, which has its root in the body, and which is
continued into the mind in imagination and the passions. It is
therefore necessary for man so to alter, and adjust this mechanism,
that it will always follow, and not obstruct, the good will.
[97] P. 73, l. 3. _Justus ex fide vivit._--Romans i, 17.
[98] P. 73, l. 5. _Fides ex auditu._--Romans x, 17.
[99] P. 73, l. 12. _The creature._--What is purely natural in us.
[100] P. 74, l. 15. _Inclina cor meum, Deus._--Ps. cxix, 36.
[101] P. 75, l. 11. _Unus quisque sibi Deum fingit._--See Book of Wisdom
xv, 6, 16.
[102] P. 76, l. 34. _Eighth beatitude._--Matthew v, 10. It is to the
fourth beatitude that the thought directly refers.
[103] P. 77, l. 6. _One thousand and twenty-eight._--The number of the
stars according to Ptolemy's catalogue.
[104] P. 77, l. 29. _Saint Augustine._--_Epist._ cxx, 3.
[105] P. 78, l. 1. _Nisi efficiamini sicut parvuli._--Matthew xviii, 3.
[106] P. 80, l. 20. _Inclina cor meum, Deus, in_....--Ps. cxix, 36.
[107] P. 80, l. 22. _Its establishment._--The constitution of the
Christian Church.
[108] P. 81, l. 20. _The youths and maidens and children of the Church
would prophesy._--Joel ii, 28.
[109] P. 83, l. 11. _On what_, etc.--See Montaigne, _Essais_, ii, 12.
[110] P. 84, l. 16. _Nihil amplius ... est._--Ibid. Cicero, _De
Finibus_, v, 21.
[111] P. 84, l. 17. _Ex senatus ... exercentur._--Montaigne, _Essais_,
iii, 1. Seneca, _Letters_, 95.
[112] P. 84, l. 18. _Ut olim ... laboramus._--Montaigne, _Essais_, iii,
13. Tacitus, _Ann._, iii, 25.
[113] P. 84, l. 20. _The interest of the sovereign._--The view of
Thrasymachus in Plato's _Republic_, i, 338.
[114] P. 84, l. 21. _Another, present custom._--The doctrine of the
Cyrenaics. Montaigne, _Essais_, iii, 13.
[115] P. 84, l. 2
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