'Is it not as clear as day that man's condition is dual? The point is that if man had never been corrupted, he would, in his innocence, confidently enjoy both truth and felicity, and, if man had never been anything but corrupt, he would have no idea either of truth or bliss. But unhappy as we are...we have an idea of happiness but cannot attain it.'
Blaise Pascal in Alan Jacobs, Original Sin, p.117.
