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Random Reminiscences

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MR. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER AT THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN.

of Men and Events

 

 

BY

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

 

 

 

 

New York

Doubleday, Page & Company

1909

COPYRIGHT, 1908, 1909, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY


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PREFACE

Probably in the life of every one there comes a time when he is inclined to go over again the events, great and small,

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Bart Chernow, who pulled me back, at the last moment, from the brink, and to the lovely Valerie Two men have been supreme in creating the modern world: Rockefeller and Bismarck. One in economics, the other in politics, refuted the liberal dream of universal happiness through individual competition, substituting monopoly and the corporate state, or at least movements toward them. —BERTRAND RUSSELL Freedom Versus Organization, 1814 to 1914 Something in the nature of J. D. Rockefeller had to occur in America, and it is all to the good of the world that he was tight-lipped, consistent and amazingly free from vulgar vanity, sensuality and quarrelsomeness. His cold persistence and ruthlessness may arouse something like horror, but for all that he was a forward-moving force, a constructive power. —H. G. WELLS The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind When history passes its final verdict on John D. Rockefeller, it may well be that his endowment of research will be recognized as a milestone in the progress of the race. . . . Science today owes as much to the rich men of generosity

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