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Wrappers. Spine slightly darkened, staples rusty. From the author's library; essay reprinted from the Irish Jesuit quarterly Studies, 1920, "with additions by the Author". "Of the many thousand Jesuit decisions [Pascal] selects what are, in appearance even, only 132, and in real numbers - if we exclude repetitions - only 89. Of these 89, three are wrongly quoted (because Pascal was badly briefed), 17 are merely frivolous, 7 are protests against commonsense decisions with which all the world now agrees, 2 are put so that they suggest what the Casuist never said, 11 are verbal tricks, deceiving the reader by the suppression of an essential in his opponent's position - as when one should say that Lord So-and-So had failed to vote against divorce, suppressing the fact that Lord So-and-So was a child in arms. 35 are purely domestic controversy upon points of Catholic practice (most of them petty) which cannot concern our opponents and in which they cannot pretend an active interest on Pascal's side or on the other. There remain, when the whole list has been gone through, fourteen [in bold] points - only fourteen [in bold again] - out of all the 132 [in bold] which merit consideration" - and these may directly be reduced to three: "one on Simony, one on the action of judges for a benefit, and one on Usury - all three of which are doubtful. This conclusion is dry and without savour. But it is exact.". Seller Inventory # 32M100339
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