being lost, everything becomes its own true good.

427. Man does not know in what rank to place himself. He has plainly gone
astray and fallen from his true place without being able to find it again.
He seeks it anxiously and unsuccessfully everywhere in impenetrable
darkness.

428. If it is a sign of weakness to prove God by nature, do not despise
Scripture; if it is a sign of strength to have known these contradictions,
esteem Scripture.

429. The vileness of man in submitting himself to the brutes and in even
worshipping them. e

430. For Port-Royal. The beginning, after having explained the
incomprehensibility.--The greatness and the wretchedness of man are so
evident that the true religion must necessarily teach us both that there is
in man some great source of greatness and a great source of wretchedness. It
must then give us a reason for these astonishing contradictions.

In order to make man happy, it must prove to him that there is a God; that
we ought to love Him; that our true happiness