The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
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The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
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Numbers 1:2:
'Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.'
(NIV)
Take a census of all the males of the congregation of the Israelites by families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, head by head.
(AMP)
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
(KJV)
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Luke 2:1:
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
(NIV)
IN THOSE days it occurred that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole Roman empire should be registered.
(AMP)
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
(KJV)
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These census results show that the economic structure is actually better and healthier than our previous judgment.
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