You admit that France will make this _something else_, which is to be exchanged for cloth, with less labor than if it had made the cloth itself?
-- Doubtless.
-- Then a certain quantity of its labor will become inert?
-- Yes; but people will be no worse clothed--a little circumstance which causes the whole misunderstanding.

Robinson lost sight of it, and our protectionists do not see it, or pretend not to.

The stranded plank thus paralyzed for fifteen days Robinson's labor, so far as it was applied to the making of a plank, but it did not deprive him of it.

Distinguish, then, between these two kinds of diminution of labor, one resulting in _privation_, and the other in _comfort_.

These two things are very different, and if you assimilate them, you reason like Robinson.