If, then, I were to continue to work by the day, and to save a part of my wages, as I have been doing, in the course of time I should be able to lend two sacks of corn; then three; then four; and when I should have gained a sufficient number to enable me to live on these additions of five litres over and above each, I shall be at liberty to take a little repose in my old age.

But how is this?
In this case, shall I not be living at the expense of others?
No, certainly, for it has been proved that in lending I perform a service; I complete the labor of my borrowers; and only deduct a trifling part of the excess of production, due to my lendings and savings.

It is a marvellous thing, that a man may thus realize a leisure which injures no one, and for which he cannot be envied without injustice." THE HOUSE.
Mondor had a house.

In building it, he had extorted nothing from any one whatever.

He owed it to his own personal labor, or, which is the same thing, to labor justly rewarded.