Charles Dickens had an alternative title for A Christmas Carol.
Originally intending to write a political pamphlet titled, An Appeal to the People of England, on behalf of the Poor Man's Child he changed his mind and instead wrote A Christmas Carol which voiced his social concerns.
Let us sit and talk a while
We have been good partners for years.
Have we now lost our common purpose? Does it take a small child to show us how we are now, joined in our grasping of money whilst talking of the well-being of children less? Now our talk is of business, of cash boxes and ledger books. We do not talk with each other but at each other, neither party listening to the other, neither considering our shared social responsibility.
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