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The Art of Persuasion, by Blaise Pascal

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • Jan 23, 2022 • 23m

Pascal, the keen-minded philosopher and mathematician, fathomed the human traits of man's nature with the same accurate measurements which made him famous in the realm of geometry. Read his searching analysis of man's conceit. (Volume 48, Harvard Classics)

Pascal publishes "Provincial Letters," Jan. 23, 1656.

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