We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

K. That said the man of whom Russell Kirk wrote "as a critic of ideas perhaps there has not been his peer in England or America since Coleridge" has much to offer the discriminating Christian reader. See also
American philosophy
List of American philosophers.