_THE HAPPINESS OF MAN WITH GOD_ 89 Preface to the Second Part 91 Of the Need of Seeking Truth 95 The Philosophers 105 Thoughts on Mahomet and on China 115 Of the Jewish People 119 The Authenticity of the Sacred Books 125 The Prophecies 131 Of Types in General and of their Lawfulness 157 That the Jewish Law was Figurative 167 Of the True Religion and its Characteristics 179 The Excellence of the Christian Religion 183 Of Original Sin 191 The Perpetuity of the Christian Religion 197 Proofs of the Christian Religion 203 Proofs of the Divinity of Jesus Christ 213 The Mission and Greatness of Jesus Christ 225 The Mystery of Jesus 231 Of the True Righteous Man and of the True Christian 237 The Arrangement 253 Of Miracles in General 257 Jesuits and Jansenists 273 Thoughts on Style 301 Various Thoughts 307 _NOTES_ 317 _INDEX_ 339 PREFACE. Those to whom the Life of Pascal and the Story of Port Royal are unknown, must be referred to works treating fully of the subject, since it were impossible to deal with them adequately within the limits of a preface. Sainte-Beuve's great work on Port Royal, especially the second and third volumes, and "Port Royal," by Charles Beard, B.A., London, 1863, may best be consulted by any who require full, lucid, and singularly impartial information. But for such as, already acquainted with the time and the man, need a recapitulation of the more important facts, or for those who may find an outline map useful of the country they are to study in detail, a few words are here given.