Excerpt from Le Tartuf Ou L'imposteur The reform movement, on the other hand, had its center in the Jansenists of the Port Royal. The keynote of their teaching was that of the Reformation in gen eral, though they never broke their connection with the Catholic Church. They maintained that man can be re deemed from sin only by the direct intervention of the grace of God The growth of their influence caused a bitter attack upon them by the Jesuits, and the outcome of this battle fought with passion on either side was the publication in 1656 and 1657 of Pascal's famous Lettres Provincial/es, in which the casuistic doctrines of the Jesuits were analyzed with keen logic and biting satire. In the seventh and ninth of these letters the questions of the purity Of intention and mental reserva tion are analyzed in detail, and their publication did much to increase the animosity of the conflict. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.