Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

In it he warned that science was becoming a divinity its methodology usurping the role of reason and philosophy. A noted poet and mystic Jacques Maritain participated as his intellectual partner in his search for truth. He had had an influence on the order since its foundation in 1933.

Jacques Maritain (18 November 1882 – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. An author of more than 60 books he helped to revive St.