These two incomplete sciences—psychology and nuclear physics—are now abruptly confronted with the atomic bomb. . . . Psychology has not yet advanced far enough to permit all men to live sane, balanced, and tolerant lives. That has not hitherto been essential to survival; in the not too distant future it may be. What was required, he wrote, was “a total reorganization of the pattern of civilization,” and his final lines amounted to a prelude to dianetics: “We must learn more about atomic forces. But we’d be wise if, first, we learned more about man—the one greater force that can twist atomic
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