Note 84 — Chapter II · THE CONFLUENCE
Reading edition
Preface to Pickwick (1847 edition), xix.
Cf. his letter to Charles Knight: “My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else—the representatives of the wickedest and most enormous vice of this time—and the men who, through long years to come, will do more to damage the real, useful truths of political economy than I could do (if I tried) in my whole life:” Letters, I, 363.