Unceasing Motion Quotes

He was reporting from Philadelphia at the time. At the time, the existence of many children and a high birth rate was thought to be indicative of a robust economy, advanced health, and a predictor of future economic and military power. The French pioneered the use of demographic information as a component of military intelligence, and the correlation between birthrate and prosperity and power existed until the 20th century where technology and the education and skill of the human population became much more important than numbers of people per se. Kalb later returned to America when the French allied with the American Colonists in the American Revolution. He served under George Washington as a Major General.

This quotation is noteworthy because one of the great church scholars had conflated astronomy and theology and ruled that one view of the universe—that the earth rotated around the sun was not just a scientific intellectual discussion. But the earth would not be eternal and that refuted the doctrine that God made earth to be eternal. This presaged the conflict that Galileo would have with the church a few centuries later.