394 The Chevalier Grasere’s Account of the great Historical Work 
29. Tribes living in the Desert need greatly the assistance of people 
inhabiting cities. 
Boox III.—Of dynasties, monarchy, Khalifat, ranks, and dignities. Sixty- 
one chapters. 
1. The founders of dynasties are in particular need of the support derived 
from the heads of families. 
2. A dynasty, already firmly established, can do without this support. 
3. A rising dynasty, assured of foreign support, can also dispense with 
the aid of family power. 
4. The great monarchies have been founded by prophets, and were theocra- 
cles. 
5. The ascendancy of religious authority will always, at the foundation 
of the monarchy, overweigh the influence of family power. 
6. Nevertheless, the religious power cannot do without the assistance of 
paternal authority. 
7. The power of each empire is circumscribed by certain limits, beyond 
these, it will, and must decay. 
8. The prosperity and glory of an empire are dependent on the greater 
or smaller number of the public officers or servants of government. 
9. Absolute power can never be firmly established in a country occupied 
by several powerful tribes. 
10. A well settled dominion will always tend to the enjoyment of quiet, 
and the conveniences of life. 
11. This tendency is the presage of its decline and downfall. 
12. Empires have their natural life like individuals. 
13. Of the progress of dominion ; passage from the savage to the civilized 
state. ' 
14. Agriculture in a rising dominion, far from weakening it, will increase 
its strength. 
15. Of the various changes which the same dominion is liable to un- 
dergo, in process of time. 
16. The monuments which are left us of ancient empires are adequate to 
the grandeur, and original power of those empires. 
17. Foreign assistance is often called in, to counteract the overbearing 
influence of some too powerful families. 
18. Of the foreign supporters of a throne. 
