But as soon as the proprietor becomes a producer,--since he can exchange his special product only with his tenant or his _commandite_,--sooner or later this tenant, this _exploited_ man, if violence is not done him, will make a profit out of the proprietor, and will oblige him to restore--in the exchange of their respective products--the interest on his capital.

So that, balancing one injustice by another, the contracting parties will be equal.

Labor and exchange, when liberty prevails, lead, then, to equality of fortunes; mutuality of services neutralizes privilege.
That is why despots in all ages and countries have assumed control of commerce; they wished to prevent the labor of their subjects from becoming an obstacle to the rapacity of tyrants.
Up to this point, all takes place in the natural order; there is no premeditation, no artifice.

The whole proceeding is governed by the laws of necessity alone.

Proprietors and laborers act only in obedience to their wants.