“The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.”

— L. Ron Hubbard, book Science of Survival

Source: Science of Survival (1951), p. 170.

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