95. The use which the money-lender makes of his interest.
Indeed, the interest he draws from that capital seems to make
him of the disposing class, since the undertaker and the
enterprise may shift without it. It seems also we may form an
inference, that in the profits of the two laborious classes,
either in the culture of the earth or industry, there is a
disposable portion, namely, that which answers to the interest of
the advances, calculated on the current rate of interest of money
lent; it appears also that this conclusion seems to agree with
what we have said, that the mere class of proprietors had a
revenue properly so called, a disposing revenue, and that all the
members of the other classes had only salaries or profits. This
merits some future inquiry. If we consider the thousand crowns
that a man receives annually, who has lent 60,000 livres, to a
merchant, in respect to the use he may make of it, there is no
doubt of this being perfectly disposable, since the enterprize
may subsist without it.
