The following piece by Dickens, in my estimation, is about how the privileged who espouse a prosperity message, if I may use a current term, but see not the struggles of the common man.
"O Moralists, who treat of happiness and self-respect, innate in every
sphere of life, and shedding light on every grain of dust in God's highway, so
smooth below your carriage-wheels, so rough beneath the tread of naked feet,
bethink yourselves in looking on the swift descent of men who have lived in
their own esteem, that there are scores of thousands breathing now, and
breathing thick with painful toil, who in that high respect have never lived at
all, nor had a chance of life! Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred bard
who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the
righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, teachers of content
and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of
deepest ignorance and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful
plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as
fast as it is kindled! And, oh! Ye Pharisees of the nineteen hundredth year of
Christian knowledge, who soundingly appeal to human nature, see that it be
human first. Take heed it has not been transformed, during your slumber and the
sleep of generations, into the nature of beasts." Charles Dickens.
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