The point in all these examples is this: the human impulse toward the sublime and the artist’s revelation of the beautiful; love’s power to unlock the full splendor of the other, its blinding revelation of the infinite worth of the individual; and conscience, with its unwavering response to moral imperatives, its piercing protest against evil and gentle enticement to recognize the good—all these are living proofs that different ways of knowing exist. We employ them, we rely upon them, and we trust in them. As well we should.
