" These are real people, and their suffering is real, and the distance I feel from it, the abstract quality it assumes from my vantage–quite as aristocratic, or perhaps even petit bourgeois as you might say–says a great deal about my vantage but nothing at all about the condition of that class of which your friend Engels writes so convincingly. I began, in other words, to realize that your feelings about the working class were rather like mine toward slavery after reading Mr Darwin's account of his voyage: that I had never actually seen a slave made no difference, nor should it have. "

― Emma Bull