"If my letters are condemned at Rome, that which I condemn in them is condemned in heaven."-PASCAL.

"The 'Provincial Letters' are models of eloquence and pleasantry. The best comedies of Moliere have not more wit in them than the first Letters; Bossuet has nothing more sublime than the concluding ones."-VOLTAIRE.

"The 'Provincial Letters' on the fallacies of the Jesuits, while they exhibit as entire a freedom from bigotry, exhibit also as much pointed wit, and as much sound reasoning, as are to be found in the whole mass of modern philosophy."-HANNAH MORE.

LETTER I.-Disputes in the Sorbonne, and the invention of proximate

power-a term employed by the Jesuits to procure the censure of M.

Arnauld,

LETTER II.-Of sufficient grace,

REPLY of "the Provincial" to the first Two Letters of his Friend,

LETTER III.-Injustice, absurdity, and nullity of the censure on M.

Arnauld,

LETTER IV.-On actual grace and sins of ignorance,

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LETTER V.-Design of the Jesuits in establishing a new system of morals

-Two sorts of casuists among them-A great many lax and some

severe ones-Reason of this difference-Explanation of the doctrine

of probabilism-A multitude of modern and unknown authors, sub-

stituted in the place of the holy fathers,

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LETTER VI.-Various artifices of the Jesuits to elude the authority of

the gospel, of councils, and of the popes-Some consequences which

result from their doctrine of probabilism-Their relaxation in favour

of beneficiaries, priests, monks, and domestics-Anecdote of John

d'Alba,

LETTER VII.-Method of directing the intention adopted by the casuists

-Permission to kill in defence of honour and property, extended

even to priests and monks-Curious question raised by Caramuel as

to whether Jesuits may be allowed to kill Jansenists,

LETTER VIII.-Corrupt maxims of the casuists relating to Judges-

Usurers-The contract Mohatra-Bankrupts -Restitution- Divers

ridiculous notions of these same casuists,

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