Pascal's Pensees By Blaise Pascal.INTRODUCTION BY

T. S. ELIOT. Published 1958 by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. Pascal's Pensees represented a defense of the Christian religion by Blaise Pascal, the renowned 17th century philosopher and mathematician. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. The concept (but not the term) "Pascal's Wager" stems from a portion of this work. The Pensées is in fact a name given posthumously to his fragments, which he had been preparing for an Apology for the Christian Religion and which was never completed.