To enumerate the particulars, there are his educational tools now employed by several million students and teachers across all continents, and described as the singular key to all literacy and learning throughout the whole of southern Africa. There is his program for criminal reform, similarly employed across every continent, and regularly credited with reducing 90 percent recidivism rates to virtually nothing. There is his means of drug rehabilitation, routinely ending 10 and 20 years of substance abuse in cases once judged incorrigible, and likewise credited with the salvation of a hundred thousand terminal addicts in 70 nations. There is his system for sane and equitable administration now at work in some 80,000 private and public concerns worldwide, and credited with reviving whole industries from the dead. Finally, there is Mr. Hubbard’s nonreligious moral code, The Way to Happiness, now in the hands of some 62 million readers and proving an astonishing force for peace and decency.

The point here, and a crucial one: L. Ron Hubbard has provided the means for repairing every breach of human rights and cultural inadequacy besetting us in this 21st century. He has further inspired churches of Scientology to form a truly powerful bulwark against those who would perpetuate those cultural inadequacies.

“If you champion the dignity and freedom of mankind, you are a Scientologist at heart if not by name,” he once wrote.

“We believe in mankind. We can and are helping man, our countries and society.

“We are not ‘one man.’ We are millions and we are everywhere.”