Read the following excerpt from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. In it, a business owner named Ebenezer Scrooge discusses the poor and working classes: “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” Think about what you have learned about various thinkers of the Industrial Revolution. Whose ideas are reflected in the excerpt? James Watt Adam Smith Thomas Malthus Robert Owen