Scrooge learns that the
purpose of life is to take care of other people when one can. Marley tells him early on,
"'Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business [...]." In other words,
he ought to have been spending his time engaged in the business of life rather than the business
of profit. Marley also says that
It is required of every
man [...] that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and
wide, and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is
doomed to wander through the world [...] and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared
on earth, and turned to happiness!
Thus, Marley makes it
clear that what we are supposed to do in life is to travel around among other people and to
share a...
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