"a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river; true on this side of the Pyrenees, false on the other."

"Plaisante justice qu’une rivière borne ! Vérité au‑deçà des Pyrénées, erreur au‑delà."

     Blaise Pascal, Pensées Brunschvicg 294 =Faugère II, 126, IV / Havet III.8 / Michaut 193 / Tourneur p. 182-1 / Le Guern 56 / Maeda III p. 4 / Lafuma 60 / Sellier 94.  English from the Krailsheimer translation, in which this appears as no. 60.  I was reminded of this by Fr. Thomas Michelet, O.P., who directs it against "une théologie contextuelle et une pastorale contextuelle qui conduira fatalement à une dogmatique contextuelle au détriment de l’unité de la foi [(a contextual theology and a contextual pastoral [practice] that will lead inevitably to a contextual dogmatics to the detriment of the unity of the faith)]".  "Peut-on bénir Fiducia supplicans?," Revue thomiste, January 2024.