Science of Survival

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The first printing of this book was on August 1, 1951.

Notes

• See Science of Survival - Alterations for a detailed comparison of the original version offered here as a free download, and the altered 2007 version currently available from the Church of Scientology.

Notes about the First Edition

by Antony A Phillips

The first edition varies in some details from the free download link above.

It is a thick hardcover book measuring 14.5 cm x 23 cm with a plain green cover (there is writing only on the spine) and the endpapers are yellow. Most noticeable to my eyes and others at the time was the fact that the first printed page begins a 23 page "Publishes Introduction" which includes some graphs (Personality Inventory, Summary of Gain in Intelligence Scores, et cetera.) which is signed by the "Editorial Staff, Hubbard Dianetic FoundationAn evening, part-time organization. It's hours are 6:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M., Monday through Friday and 9:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. Saturday and Sunday. (Modern Management Technology Defined (C) 1976)".
The next right-hand page is the title page of the work "Science of Survival, Simplified, Faster DIANETIC TECHNIQUES". It has a logo of the Hubbard Dianetic FoundationAn evening, part-time organization. It's hours are 6:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M., Monday through Friday and 9:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. Saturday and Sunday. (Modern Management Technology Defined (C) 1976), a triangle in a circle, and the publisher "The Hubbard Dianetic FoundationAn evening, part-time organization. It's hours are 6:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M., Monday through Friday and 9:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. Saturday and Sunday. (Modern Management Technology Defined (C) 1976), Inc., Wichita, Kansas, distributors. It is published by Wichita Publishing Company., 451N.Main St., Wichita, Kansas.
The next (left hand) page is the usual data on copyright, printings and printed in the USA.
The next page has the dedication "To ALEXIS VALERIE HUBBARD For Whose Tomorrow May Be Hoped a World That Is Fit to Be Free.".
The next left hand page is blank.
The next right-hand page starts with "Acknowledgement is made to 50-thousand years of thinking men without whose speculations and observations the creation and construction of Dianetics1. DIA (Greek) through, NOUS (Greek) mind, deals with a system of mental image pictures in relation to psychic (spiritual) trauma. The mental image pictures are believed on the basis of personal revelation to be comprising mental activity created and formed by the spirit, and not by the body or brain. (BPL 24 Sept 73 V) 2. Dn addresses the body. Thus Dn is used to knock out and erase illnesses, unwanted sensations, misemotion, somatics, pain, etc. Dn came before Scn. It disposed of body illness and the difficulties a thetan was having with his body. (HCOB 22 Apr 69)...more would not have been possible. Credit in particular is due to: Anaxagoras, Thomas Paine, Aristotle, Thomas Jefferson, Socrates, Rene Descartes, Plato, James Clerk Maxwell, Euclid, Charcot, Lucretius, Herbert Spencer, Roger Bacon, William James, Francis Bacon, Sigmund Freud, Isaac Newton, Cmdr Thomson (MC) USN, van Leeuwenhoek, William A.White, Voltaire, Will Durant, Count Alfred Korzybski, and my instructors in atomic and molecular phenomena, mathematics and the humanities at George Washington University and at Princeton.
The next page is blank and the following page numbered xxxi begins the table of contents.
Page xxxv starts with the Goal of Dianetics1. DIA (Greek) through, NOUS (Greek) mind, deals with a system of mental image pictures in relation to psychic (spiritual) trauma. The mental image pictures are believed on the basis of personal revelation to be comprising mental activity created and formed by the spirit, and not by the body or brain. (BPL 24 Sept 73 V) 2. Dn addresses the body. Thus Dn is used to knock out and erase illnesses, unwanted sensations, misemotion, somatics, pain, etc. Dn came before Scn. It disposed of body illness and the difficulties a thetan was having with his body. (HCOB 22 Apr 69)...more, and an Introduction, which are combined into one in the link given above here.

Amongst people I met in the mid and late 50s there was a supposition that this very unusual beginning of the book (not beginning with the title page) was copied from Count Alfred Korzybski's [[1]] book "Science and Sanity", a book which was quite well known at the time amongst the people who might be interested in Scientology and Dianetics1. DIA (Greek) through, NOUS (Greek) mind, deals with a system of mental image pictures in relation to psychic (spiritual) trauma. The mental image pictures are believed on the basis of personal revelation to be comprising mental activity created and formed by the spirit, and not by the body or brain. (BPL 24 Sept 73 V) 2. Dn addresses the body. Thus Dn is used to knock out and erase illnesses, unwanted sensations, misemotion, somatics, pain, etc. Dn came before Scn. It disposed of body illness and the difficulties a thetan was having with his body. (HCOB 22 Apr 69)...more.

1951 LRHL. Ron Hubbard books

In 1951 L. Ron Hubbard published five books. They are in order of publication:

Science of Survival , published August 1, 1951 [[2]].
Self Analysis, published August 1951 [[3]].
Dianetics1. DIA (Greek) through, NOUS (Greek) mind, deals with a system of mental image pictures in relation to psychic (spiritual) trauma. The mental image pictures are believed on the basis of personal revelation to be comprising mental activity created and formed by the spirit, and not by the body or brain. (BPL 24 Sept 73 V) 2. Dn addresses the body. Thus Dn is used to knock out and erase illnesses, unwanted sensations, misemotion, somatics, pain, etc. Dn came before Scn. It disposed of body illness and the difficulties a thetan was having with his body. (HCOB 22 Apr 69)...more: The Original Thesis , written in 1948, published 1951 [[4]]
Child Dianetics1. DIA (Greek) through, NOUS (Greek) mind, deals with a system of mental image pictures in relation to psychic (spiritual) trauma. The mental image pictures are believed on the basis of personal revelation to be comprising mental activity created and formed by the spirit, and not by the body or brain. (BPL 24 Sept 73 V) 2. Dn addresses the body. Thus Dn is used to knock out and erase illnesses, unwanted sensations, misemotion, somatics, pain, etc. Dn came before Scn. It disposed of body illness and the difficulties a thetan was having with his body. (HCOB 22 Apr 69)...more, published October 1951 [[5]].
Handbook For Preclears, published December 1951 [[6]]