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Dickens and Engels agreed that there was an urgent and malignant problem in England, and that if it went untreated millions of lives would be wasted. However, the two differed about the means by which this disease would be cured. While Dickens believed that spiritual awareness could prompt individuals to change the quality of their interactions with others, Engels believed that social and economic conditions would force the working poor to devise a political alternative that would attack poverty at its source.