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A book written by the notorious literary free-lance Ga rasse, in which the paradoxes and the laxity of his colleagues were carried to a ridiculous extreme, called forth from the Abbé de saint-cyran an annihilating criticism'. The Society, although somewhat ashamed of their champion, could not disavow principles which were to be found under the approbation of its generals, and felt that saint-cyran's strokes passed over the prostrate Garasse into their own stronghold. This was the first skirmish in the great war in which Pascal was to take so important a part.
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Mathematicien ou philosophe? Theologien ou physicien? Pascal etait tout cela a la fois, ce qui en fait un des esprits les plus brillants de son temps. Figure intellectuelle majeure du XVIIe siecle, Pascal demeure aujourd hui une reference en matiere de reflexion sur Dieu, sur l infini, sur l inconnu. Ses recherches ont contribue a faire avancer les sciences dures autant que ses fameuses "Pensees" ont amene ses contemporains a s interroger sur leur rapport au spirituel.
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