"There are some upon this earth of yours," returned the Spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us."
Wow! Dickens taking a swipe at the pompous, hypocritical religious reformers of his own day, who pretended they were acting for the moral good whilst making the lives of the poor even harder.
Wow! Dickens taking a swipe at the pompous, hypocritical religious reformers of his own day, who pretended they were acting for the moral good whilst making the lives of the poor even harder.