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- author: Carl Sagan
- content: "I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and\
- \ superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason\
- \ more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic\
- \ or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to\
- \ national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place\
- \ and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us\u2014then, habits of\
- \ thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.\nThe candle flame gutters.\
- \ Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir."
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