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20 February 2008

Hubbard’s aims

Kenneth Eckersley touches upon the impracticality of helping the masses, and how L Ron Hubbard fills

By Kenneth Eckersley

Mahatma Gandhi famously replied, when asked what he thought of western civilisation, “I think that’s a very good idea.”

I subscribe to the aims of Scientology which are: “a civilisation without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights”.

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