What have you to say ?".
"Nothing, nothing," replied the stranger, who burst out laughing, and returned to his canoe.
-- The story would not be bad if Robinson was not so foolish.
-- He is no more so than the committee in Hauteville street.
-- Oh, there is a great difference.

You suppose one solitary man, or, what comes to the same thing, two men living together.

This is not our world; the diversity of occupations, and the intervention of merchants and money, change the question materially.
-- All this complicates transactions, but does not change their nature.
-- What! Do you propose to compare modern commerce to mere exchanges?
-- Commerce is but a multitude of exchanges; the real nature of the exchange is identical with the real nature of commerce, as small labor is of the same nature with great, and as the gravitation which impels an atom is of the same nature as that which attracts a world.
-- Thus, according to you, these arguments, which in Robinson's mouth are so false, are no less so in the mouths of our protectionists?
-- Yes; only error is hidden better under the complication of circumstances.
-- Well, now, select some instance from what has actually occurred.
-- Very well; in France, in view of custom and the exigencies of the climate, cloth is an useful article.

Is it the essential thing _to make it, or to have it_?
-- A pretty question! To have it, we must make it.
-- That is not necessary.

It is certain that to have it some one must make it; but it is not necessary that the person or country using it should make it.