“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, and who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings upon themselves, not on us.”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
