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4. Of hidden treasures, and of those who make a business of discovering 
them. 
5. High offices lead to riches. 
6. Humiliation and submission are also means of growing rich. 
7. The offices of judges, imdms, and schoolmasters are not lucrative. 
- 8. Agriculture is the lot of the lowest class of the people. 
9. Of commerce. 
10. Of exportations. 
11. Of monopolies, or engrossment of commodities. 
12. When the prices of goods are low, the merchants do not profit. 
13. To whom commerce is suitable, and to whom not. 
14. Merchants are generally accused of being deficient in elevated and 
liberal ideas. 
15. Arts and handicrafts cannot be learned without teachers. 
16. The greater or smaller perfection in the arts, depends on the higher 
or lower degree of civilization. 
17. The consistency of the arts and handicrafts, depends entirely on the 
more or less diffused civilization of the country. 
18. Arts and manufactures always thrive, according to the number of 
individuals employed in them. _ ; 
19. The decay of the state carries with it the ruin of the arts. 
20. The Arabs have very little skill in arts and manufactures. 
21. The individual who excels in one art will hardly be eminent in any 
other. 
22. Division of the arts. 
23. Of agriculture and the breeding of cattle. 
24. Of architecture. 
25. Of joinery. 
26. The arts of the tailor and the weaver. 
27. Of midwifery. 
28. The art, or science of healing. 
29. The art of writing. 
30. The arts of the bookbinder and the papermaker. 
31. Of music and dancing. 
32. A certain perfection in the arts of writing and computation, commonly 
inspires a prepossession towards those who have acquired the command of it. 
