WHEN I visited the hill-top retreat of John Burroughs, the distinguished writer upon nature, at West Park, New York, it was with the feeling that all success is not material; that mere dollars are nothing, and that the influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. John Burroughs is unquestionably both influential and poor. Relatively poor: being an owner of some real estate, and having a modest income from copyrights. He is content: knowing when he has enough.

ASHORT time ago, New York learned with interest and some astonishment, that the head of its greatest transportation system, Herbert H. Vreeland, had received from several of his associates as individuals, a “valentine” present of $100,000, in recognition of his superb management of their properties.

IT is doubtful if there is in the literary world, to-day, a personage whose boyhood and young manhood can approach in romance and unusual circumstances that of the author of “The Old Swimmin’ Hole.”

The Turgot
Collection

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

(1727–1781)

Writings, Speeches, and Letters of
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot,
Baron de Laune

Edited by
David Gordon

© 2011 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and published under the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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ISBN: 978-1-933550-94-7

Acknowledgements

The Mises Institute would like to thank the many people involved in preparing this manuscript for publication, most especially Peter Groenewegen, emeritus professor of economics at the University of Sydney. This book reprints many of his translations of Turgot’s economics writings (sources are listed in the back) and we are very grateful for his permission for doing so.