Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalist world would be remedied if only men treated each other with kindliness. justice,and sympathetic understanding. This naive optimism is the characteristic of the petty-bourgeois humanitarians(人道主义 者)of his time.❖ Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalist world would be remedied if only men treated each other with kindliness, justice, and sympathetic understanding. ❖ This naïve optimism is the characteristic of the petty-bourgeois humanitarians (人道主义 者) of his time