Father Daniel makes an ingenious attempt to take off the force of this statement, by representing it as no more than what is done by other societies, universities, &c. (Entretiens, p. 32.) But while these bodies acted in good faith on this rule, the Jesuits (as Pascal afterwards shows, Letter xiii.) made it subservient to their double policy. Pascal’s point was gained by establishing the fact, that the books published by the Jesuits had the imprimatur of the Society; and, in answer to all that Daniel has said on the point, it may be sufficient to ask, Why not try the simple plan of denouncing the error and censuring the author? (See Letter v., p. 117.) Footnote 189: There is an allusion here to the phrase which is perpetually occurring in the _Constitutions_ of the Jesuits, “_Ad majorem Dei gloriam_—To the greater glory of God,” which is the reason ostentatiously paraded for almost all their laws and customs. Footnote 190: If Rome be in the right, Pascal’s notion is correct. The religion of the monastery is the only sort of piety or seriousness known to, or sanctioned by, the Romish Church. Footnote 191: The Romish distinction of sins into _venial_ and _mortal_, afforded too fair a pretext for such sophistical conclusions to be overlooked by Jesuitical casuists. Footnote 192: Francois Garasse was a Jesuit of Angouleme; he died in 1631. He was much followed as a preacher, his sermons being copiously interlarded with buffoonery. His controversial works are full of fire and fury; and his theological Summary, to which Pascal here refers, abounds with eccentricities. It deserves to be mentioned, as some offset to the folly of this writer, that Father Garasse lost his life in consequence of his attentions to his countrymen who were infected with the plague. Footnote 193: See before, Letter vii., p. 159. Footnote 194: “_An comedere et libere usque ad satietatem absque necessitate ob solam voluptatem, sit peccatum? Cum Sanctio negative respondeo, modo non obsit valetudini, quia licite potest appetitus naturalis suis actibus frui._” (N. 102.) Footnote 195: “_Si quis se usque ad vomitum ingurgitet._” (Esc., n. 56.) Footnote 196: Op. mor., p. 2, l. 3, c. 6, n. 13. Footnote 197: Tr. 25, chap. 11, n. 331, 328. Footnote 198: