Excerpt from The Priest and the Man, or Abelard and Heloisa: An Historical Romance
This story of a period and this study of a life are based upon the well-known outlines of history. But where the chroniclers are silent, fancy has dictated the fiction of the hour. The passion and the tragedy of such a story are not the invention of any writer: they are the strange in heritance of human nature. And it is these contrarieties of our nature, in the wide stretch which lies between sin and holiness, which enabled Pascal to discover, in the fact of our human weakness, the scaffolding of the Divine Architect for the upbuilding of a charat destined for another world and other conditions of life.
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