Blaise Pascal (1623–1662). Minor Works.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| New Fragment of the Treatise on Vacuum |
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| WHAT is there more absurd than to say that inanimate bodies have passions, fears, horrors; that insensible bodies, without life, and even incapable of it, may have passions which presuppose a soul at least sensitive to experience them? Besides, if the object of this horror were a vacuum, what is there in a vacuum that could make them afraid? What is there meaner and more ridiculous? | 1 |
| This is not all; if they have in themselves a principle of motion to shun a vacuum, have they arms, legs, muscles, nerves? | 2 |
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