Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)_The condition of England

I picked this author because he was very touching in relating past stories and because he had an immense influence on writers such as Ruskin, Dickens (that I liked reading). This author also impressed me because he never gave up when all his work was lost in a fire...
“England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want in every kind; yet England is dying inanition…with fifteen millions of workers, understood to be the strongest, the cunningest and the willingest our Earth ever had; these men are here; the work they have done, the fruit they have realized is here abundant.” (P1809) The author heart went out to the poor people in this passage, he gave them full credit for what they did; which they deserved. I agree with him when he said the fruit of what they realized is abundant because we are still benefiting from those fruits; we are where we are today because of their sweat. “In the eyes and brows of these men hung the gloomiest expression, not of anger, but grief and shame and manifold inarticulate distress and weariness; they returned my glance with a glance that seemed to say, ‘Do not look at us. We sit enchanted here, we know not why” (P1810) These poor were shamed by their situations, they themselves did not know why they were condemned to such injustice, why the rich treated them so badly without respect or consideration of them being human beings as they were. “A human mother and father had said to themselves, what shall we do to escape starvation? We are deep sunk here, in our dark cellar; and help is far.” (P1811) Over two hundred years later, having read about the difficulties they endured at that time, I am wondering myself what they did to somewhat escape this starvation. It is sad to say that hunger will probably always exits; although the world has came form a long way. “Are they better, beautifuler, stronger, braver? Are they even what they call happier? Do they look with satisfaction on more things and human faces in this God’s Earth? Not so” (P1811) Carlyle confirmed to us that even rich people were not happy then, even though they fought so hard to keep with continuing injustice, they knew it did not make them happy.
“Have we actually got enchanted, then; accursed by some God?” (P1812) I am assuming Carlyle believe in God and knew that the God we preach to could not let his children suffered so much; so he is wondering if it was another forced that was causing this injustice. If I was there then, I would wonder the same thing also…All the authors I read so far impressed me in the way they worded their poems to make the readers understand by letting them draw their own conclusions…