MISATTRIBUTION OF ACTIONS
Scrooge suspects that the Spirit desires to cramp people's opportunities for innocent enjoyment and to deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, but the Spirit denies this, clarifying that such actions have been done in the Spirit's name or that of his family, not by the Spirit himself. This is a suspected claim of misattribution of actions to the Spirit.
SCROOGE
'Spirit!' said Scrooge, after a moment's thought, 'I wonder you, of all the beings in the many worlds about us, should desire to cramp these people's opportunities of innocent enjoyment. "I!" cried the Spirit. "You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, often the only day on which they can be said to dine at all," said Scrooge; "wouldn't you?" "I!" cried the Spirit. "You seek to close these places on the Seventh Day," said Scrooge. "And it comes to the same thing." "I seek!" exclaimed the Spirit. "Forgive me if I am wrong. It has been done in your name, or at least in that of your family," said Scrooge.'