Pascal and Muggeridge make a fascinating pair.This short book, 62 pages, consists of the inaugural addresses of 'The Pascal Lectures on Christianity and University', given at University of Waterloo in 1978. Includes a seven page introduction about Pascal. Each of the two sections concludes with a few questions and answers.MM is easy to read. His love of Pacal is clear. Humor is not avoided. Commenting on Pascal, says "There is only one blot on his record, and that is that he invented the computer." (1)MM says about Pascal's 'Pensees'. "But it is quite likely that had Pascal lived to translate those notes into a long, well reasoned thesis, they might have had infinitely less effect than they had as Pensees, which so touch people, so enchant you, as you read them because of their brevity, their sharpness, their rather haphazard quality." (4)So true!MM explains: "Pascal was also a very proud man. But he it aside his pride to bow down at the alter rail with his fellow Christians, whomsoever they might be, in perfect brotherliness. This was an important aspect of Pascal. Before scientists became as arrogant as many of them are today, he, a superlatively great scientist, practiced true humility, which is the greatest of all virtues. . . . Because he understood how important humility is and because he could recognize the arrogance that was growing up among scholars and learned people, he foresaw the dangers that the enlightenment would bring." (7)The twentieth century broke the covenant with the enlightenment. Pascal was proven correct, Voltaire was proven wrong.MM finishes the first essay this way: "You have the most extraordinary confidence, a sharpened awareness that this earth of ours with all its inadequacies is an extraordinarily beautiful place that the experience of living in it is a wonderful, unique experience, that relations with other human beings, human love, human procreation, work, all these things are marvelous and wonderful despite that can be said about the difficulty of our circumstances; and finally, a conviction passing all belief that as a minute particle of God's creation, you are a participant in his purposes for his creation and that those purposes are loving and not malign." (24)Perhaps Pascal's gift to Muggeridge.This is an update a year later. I listened to the Amazon audible version today. Read with a British accent. This reading sounded like a speech - and a very good one! I was more touched by this listening than reading the text version. MM depth of faith, his love for Christ, his trust in God and his loving concern, really came across. Plan to listen again in the years to come. Faith strengthening.