He negotiates unnatural but not censurable relations between selfishness and ingratitude. The good that he does is purely material. All this is something, certainly, but it generates no warm and elevated sentiments and does nothing in mitigation of the poor's animosity to the rich. He did not mention the Associated Charities of the period. Nowhere do I find myself commanded to enable others to comfort the afflicted and visit the sick and those in prison.
Organized charity is a delusion and a snare.
It enables Munniglut to think himself a good man for paying annual dues and buying transferable meal tickets. Munniglut is not thereby, a good man. Effect of a thousand causes, poverty is invincible, eternal. An since we must have it let us thank God for it and avail ourselves of all its advantages to mind and character.