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For example, out of the social evils of the English industrial revolution came the novels of Charles Dickens ; ;

and his genius moved his readers to seek solutions of those evils for all Western men -- until today --, in the industrialized West, these social evils substantially do not exist.

The solutions were not arrived at by any theoreticians of the Karl Marx stripe but by men of government -- lawyers, most of them -- and men of business.

These were educated men, who, as Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying, formed their inductions out of experience under the burden of responsibility.

That is, to put it realistically, they had to run their businesses at a profit, or they had to get the votes to get elected.

Nevertheless, they made naught of Marx's prophecy that capitalism would never pay the `` workers '' -- to use Marx's word -- more than a subsistence wage, with the consequence that increased productivity must inevitably find its way into the capitalists' pockets with the result, in turn, that the gap between the rich and the poor would irrevocably widen and the misery of the poor increase.