I absolutely adore Sagan -- I have a first edition of both this book and Cosmos in a prize position on my book shelf -- and yet I agree. He had a disdain for al

I absolutely adore Sagan -- I have a first edition of both this book and Cosmos in a prize position on my book shelf -- and yet I agree. He had a disdain for all things irrational, yet man himself and his psyche is irrational. He would have done well to assimilate Carl Jung et al into his academic diet. But he didn't because he had the classic atheist's arrogance to him. Still, he was a treasure. You just have to know which domains he had authority to speak about and which he didn't.