^{page 41 note 1} Here, exceptionally, F. perhaps goes beyond the evidence. The orators, he says, are decisive on the point. Wherever a substantial sum is borrowed on a real guarantee the purpose is not a productive one. But this is to do what he warns against elsewhere, to assume that the cases that came into court were wholly typical. There would surely be a greater tendency for loans for non-productive purposes to come into court, contracted as they often would be under stress.

^{page 42 note 1} Jones by a slip quotes D. here as saying ‘a 12½ per cent. tax’.