A failure to attend to context is evident in this quotation from David Kelley's The Evidence of the Senses. Kant recognized that awareness is always and necessarily conditioned by the means which produce it. So, of course, does Kelley. The portion here emphasized was excised from Robbins's quotation, and its excision is nearly equivalent to removing the word 'not' from a sentence. A failure to follow the principle of charity is often evident when Robbins quotes Ayn Rand.
Reason is the only objective means of communication and of understanding among men.
But this is a most uncharitable interpretation. It is possible to describe a cognitive faculty in numerous ways that may or may not involve its definition. Among Robbins's other flaws as a scholar is his tendency to make throwaway gibes. Kelley is a radio receiver channeling omnipresent energy. And Robbins himself does not, in fact, seem to regard Kelley's as a New Age theory of perception, for he spends no more time on the matter.