Such an arrangement would be obviously and absurdly unjust.

Justice demands--and practice here follows justice--that he get at the end of the week, not only his own plane back again, but two of the extra planks due to its use besides.

A plane, in short--such is Bastiat's meaning, though he does not put it in this precise way--is a possession which is fruitful no less than a sheep and a ram are, or a wine which adds to its value by the mere process of being kept, and it, therefore, yields interest for a virtually similar reason.

George, however, seeks to dispose of Bastiat's argument thus: If the maker of the plane lends it, he says, instead of himself using it, and the borrower borrows a plane, instead of himself making one, such an arrangement is simply due to the fact that both parties for the moment happen to find it convenient.

For, George observes, it is no part of Bastiat's contention that the plane is due to the exertion of any faculties possessed by the maker only.