“No man should believe anything.' Maimonides strenuously affirmed, 'Unless attested by one of three principles. First, rational proof as in mathematical sciences; secondly, the perception by one of the five senses ... and thirdly, tradition as derived from the prophets and the righteous.' In statements like this, Maimonides stands as the emblematic believer in rationality as the single most powerful instrument for approaching the truth. Coleridge, once more, echoed this Maimonidean belief in 1818: 'This again is the mystery and the dignity of our human nature, that we cannot give up our reason, without giving up at the same time our individual personality ... He who asserts that truth is of no importance except in the sense of sincerity, confounds sense with madness, and the word of God with a dream.”