Word: pascal
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Emile Marie Boutroux, the French philosopher and member of the Institute. The course, which will consist of a series of eight lectures on "Contingence et Liberte," will probably from part of French 7. These will be followed by a course of public lectures, the subjects of which will be "Pascal," "Auguste Comte," "L'essence de la religion," and "Le mouvement philosophique contemporainen France...
...Roux took for the text of his lecture a passage from Pascal: "L'homme n'est ni ange ni bete." This principle of Pascal Zola has ignored, and has only considered the lower side of man. Zola's novel, "La Terse," has lately been dramatized and put on the stage in a Parisian literary theatre. The characters are countrymen, people of little or no culture, who in every country have a certain brutality of instinct. Yet in criticising this work, the peasants declare that Zola has ascribed to them all the crimes committed in the whole of France during...