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John Ralston Saul, the Ganadian novelist and essayist, would probably have felt meat home in the 18th centu y,a centuy he visited in Voltaire's Bastards(1992). But he would likely have steered the Enlightenment toward a somewhat different conclusion. %Age of Reason, in Saul's view,has brought too much certainty to todays world, from politicians who think themselves the panacea for the world's ills to a populace mesmerized by the authority of "experts." As he suggested in that...