Pascal's Pensees Author:H.F. Stewart The last five years of Pascal's life were largely devoted to the preparation of a defense of his faith; to his confessor he declared that he had already collected various thoughts and arguments, written briefly, at different times, and unsystematically, hoping to make a book in which they would be set out in proper order. But the final form was... more » still unsettled when he died, and when eventually the Pensees were printed little attempt was made to arrange them.« less