Tabaraud, _Dissertation sur la foi qui est due au Temoignage de Pascal dans ses Lettres Provinciales_, p. 12.—This work, published some years ago in France, contains a complete justification of Pascal’s picture of the Jesuits in the Provincials, accompanied with a mass of authorities. The above sentiments have been introduced into Pascal’s Thoughts. (See Craig’s translation, p. 185.) Footnote 64: Vie de Bossuet, t. iv. p. 19; Tabaraud, Dissert. sur la foi, &c., p. 43. Footnote 65: “The shocking doctrine of Jansenius and of St. Cyran, afforded at least as much room for ridicule as the pliant doctrine of Molina, Tambourin, and Vasquez.” (D’Alembert, Dest. of the Jesuits, p. 55.) Footnote 66: Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV., ii. 367. Footnote 67: Eichhorn, Geschichte der Lit., i. 426. Footnote 68: Prov. Let., p. 118. Footnote 69: Ib., p. 142. Footnote 70: Tabaraud, p. 117; Bord. Demoulin, Eloge de Pascal, Append. Footnote 71: Schlegel, Lectures on Hist. of Lit. ii. 188. Footnote 72: Letters from Spain, p. 86. Footnote 73: Macintosh, History of England, vol. ii. 359, note. Footnote 74: Eichhorn, Geschichte der Litter., vol. i. pp. 423–425; Weisman, Hist. Eccl., vol. ii. 21; Jurieu, Prejugez Legitimes cont. le Papisme, p. 386; Claude, Defence of the Reformation, p. 29. Footnote 75: Jurieu, Justification de la Morale des Reformez, contre M. Arnauld, i. p. 30. Footnote 76: A disingenuous attempt has been sometimes made to identify these nefarious maxims with certain principles held by some of our reformers. There is an essential difference between the natural right claimed, we do not say with what justice, for subjects to proceed against their rulers as tyrants, and the right assumed by the pope to depose rulers as heretics. And it is equally easy to distinguish between the disallowed acts of some fanatical individuals who have taken the law into their own hands, and the atrocious deeds of such men as Chatel and Ravaillac, who could plead the authority of Mariana the Jesuit, that “to put tyrannical princes to death is not only a lawful, but a laudable, heroic, and glorious action.” (Dalton’s Jesuits; their Principles and Acts, London, 1843.) The Church of St. Ignatius at Rome is or was adorned, it seems, with pictures of all the assassinations mentioned in Scripture, which they have, most presumptuously, perverted in justification of their feats in this department. (D’Alembert, Dest. of the Jesuits, p. 101.) Footnote 77: Taylor, Natural Hist. of Enthusiasm, p. 256. Footnote 78: De l’Existence et de l’Institut des Jesuites. Par le R. P. de Ravignan, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Paris, 1845, p. 83. _Probabilism_ is the doctrine, that if any opinion in morals has been held by any _grave doctor_ of the Church, it is _probably true_, and may be safely followed in practice. Footnote 79: