His exaltation of spontaneous feeling, a protest against Rochefoucauld and Pascal 26 One of the most important phases of French thought in the great century of its illumination is only thoroughly intelligible, on condition that in studying it we keep constantly in mind the eloquence, force, and genius of Pascal. He was the greatest and most influential representative of that way of viewing human nature and its circumstances, which it was one of the characteristic glories of the eighteenth century to have rebelled against and rejected. More than a hundred years after the publication of the _Pensees_, Condorcet thought it worth while to prepare a new edition of them, with annotations, protest…
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