The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal

chapter XV.: ‘Those who sin through ignorance, though they sin without

meaning to sin, commit the deed only because they _will_ commit it. And, therefore, even this sin of ignorance cannot be committed except by the will of him who commits it, though by a will which incites him to the action merely, and not to the sin; and yet the action itself is nevertheless sinful, for it is enou...