Pascal's Pens es The Misery of Man without God By Blaise Pascal BRAND NEW COPY Introduction By T. S. Eliot The Pens es (literally, "thoughts") represented a defense of the Christian religion by Blaise Pascal, the renowned 17th century philosopher and mathematician. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pens es was in many ways his life's work. The concept (but not the term) "Pascal's Wager" stems from a portion of...