... when fear and guilt were making people acutely conscious of lower-class suffering, the role of the philanthropist took on an importance, even a necessity, which called for the rhetoric of heroism — Houghton 320.

A glittering imperial capital, a sprawling, congested metropolis, a source of pride, anxiety, fear and wonder all intermixed: London was the great laboratory of late-Victorian charitable activism. — Ginn 6


"The Philanthropists," by Sol Eyting, illustrates the episode in Dickens's A Christmas Carol in which Scrooge turns the philanthropists away.


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