Many of the author’s proposals were incorporated in laws over the following decades. Credit was published again and again, about once in each subsequent generation’s lifetime. In the words of Gyula Illyés, a famous Hungarian writer and poet: „It is Széchenyi who shocked me most. [...] Whenever I go back to Széchenyi’s work, I am hit as if I accidentally touched the sensitive alarm button of a clock in my sleep. Where am I, and what is my job there? This question is the reason for my alarm.”