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4. Wandering people have less corrupt manners than those who live 
in cities. 
5. They are also braver. 
6. Citizens lose their good qualities with their liberties. 
7. The genuine family power, or paternal authority, is only met with 
among tribes. 
8. The family power is grounded on the extent of the tribe. 
9. The care of preserving genealogies and titles of descent, or lineage, 
is found among savage people, and particularly amongst the Arabs. 
10. Of the intermixture of pedigrees and lineages. 
11, Dominion is a consequence of family power and parental aristocracy. 
12. Real nobility is a consequence of family power. All other sorts of 
nobility are artificial and accidental. 
13. The rank of servants is determined by the nobility of the family. 
14. Nobility of merit, or hereditary pre-eminence, does never hold out in 
the same family beyond four generations. 
15. Rude nations are the best conquerors. 
16. The end of power is dominion. 
17. Luxury and love of comfortable living, fetter the progress towards 
dominion. 
18. The tendency to submission and humility, are also obstacles in the 
way of dominion. 
19, The imposts and tributes to which a nation submits, make it contemp- 
tible. 
20. Great virtues presage dominion; great vices, the contrary. 
21. The more uncivilized the nation which attains dominion, the greater 
the extent of its power. 
22. If the principal branch of a family lose dominion, another of its 
branches will exercise it, so long as the family power remains in force. 
23. Vanquished people adapt themselves to the character, the laws, and 
the manners of their conquerors. 
24, A vanquished nation degenerates, and soon decays. 
25. The Arabs have conquered none but flat, open countries. 
26. They do not at all understand the art of preserving the state of culture, 
and civilization, of the countries they conquer. 
27. None but prophets can rule the Arabs, and become their lawgivers 
28. The Arabs know less than any other people of the science of government. 
