Dickens giving some insight into Uriah’s character, chapter 39: “I fully comprehended now, for the first time, what a base, unrelenting and revengeful spirit must have been engendered by this early, and this long, suppression,” Uriah having learned “when he was quite a young boy” that the way to get along was to “keep yourself down.” “I had seen the harvest,” reports Copperfield, “but never thought of the seed.”