Louis Eugène Marie Bautain

For several years he remained at Strasbourg, lecturing at the Faculty and at the college of Juilly, but in 1849 he set out for Paris as vicar of the diocese.

[1] Like the Scholastics, he distinguished reason and faith, and held that revelation supplies facts, otherwise unattainable, which philosophy is able to group by scientific methods.

But there exists in addition to reason another faculty which may be called intelligence, through which we are put in connection with spiritual and invisible truth.

This intelligence does not of itself yield a body of truth; it merely contains the germs of the higher ideas, and these are made productive by being brought into contact with revealed facts.

[1] In 1842, Bautain and Mère Thérèse de la Croix officially founded the Sisters of St. Louis in Juilly;[4] the order was originally established to promote Christian education for young people and has set up a number of schools around the world.