Dedicated to

DIANA HUBBARD

 

 

Acknowledgement is made to fifty- thousand years of thinking men without whose speculations and observations the creation and construction of Dianetics would not have been possible. Credit in particular is due to:

Anaxagoras

Thomas Paine

Aristotle

Thomas Jefferson

Socrates

Rene Descartes

PlatoJames

Clerk Maxwell

Euclid

Charcot

Lucretius

Herbert Spencer

Roger Bacon

William James

Isaac Newton

Francis Bacon

van Leeuwenhoek

Sigmund Freud

Voltaire

William A. White

Cmdr Thompson (MC) USN

Will Durant

Count Alfred Korzybski

and my instructors in atomic and molecular phenomena, mathematics and the humanities at George Washington University and at Princeton.