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Il me paraît, dit Voltaire, qu'en général, l'esprit dans lequel M. Pascal écrivit ses Pensées était de mon trer l'homme dans un jour odieux; il s'acharne à nous peindre tous méchants et malheureux* Il écrit contre la nature humaine à peu près comme il écrivait contre les jésuites. Il impute à l'essence de notre nature ce qui n'appartient qu'à certains hommes il dit éloquemment des injures au genre humain. J'ose prendre. Le parti de l'humanité contre ce misanthrope sublime'.
Pascal, dit M. Cousin, respire le scepticisme; il en est plein; il en proclame le principe, il en accepte toutes les conséquences, et il le pousse d'abord à son dernier terme, qui est le mépris avoué et presque la haine de la philo sophie. Oui, Pascal est nu ennemi déclaré de la philo Sophie 2.
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