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Portrait of Pascal, Humble Genius

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by Louise Perrotta, Register correspondent Sunday, Feb 08, 1998 11:00 AM Comment

Blaise Pascal: Reasons of the Heart by Marvin O'Connell

(Eerdmans, 1997, 210 pp., $16)

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a genius with the precociousness of a Mozart and the breadth of interest of a Da Vinci. He lived in a time and society vastly different from our own, yet his profound reflections on universal issues remain vital and compelling. Thinkers like T.S. Eliot, Simone Weil, Peter Kreeft,...

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