Discourse on the Passion of Love, by Blaise Pascal

<p>Pascal --- an original genius --- purposed to master everything that was new in art and science. He was a mathematician and scientist as well as a religious enthusiast and moralist, and he shows a decidedly human side of his nature in this superb essay on Love. (Volume 48, Harvard Classics)</p> <p>St. Valentine's Day.</p> <p> </p>