to start construction, with, say two ton of bricks and eight hundred pound of roof tiles; the judge provides the builder with twenty five ton of bricks, two ton of roof tiles and fifteen ton of marble. let us suppose for the sake of the argument that it takes the builder the same time to build the judge's house and the shoemaker's, the judge's will nonetheless be automatically more expensive as it contains within its walls fifteen ton worth of marble. in reality of course the judge's house will be much longer in building than the shoemaker's. the question to be raised is then the following: all accounts being settled 