The sheer size of growth is bad enough, but there are now also very disturbing signs of trouble in the comparison of percentages of people living in towns and percentages of people working in industry.
This is how our ancestors formed their relationships, because humans lived in small, close knit communities in which options for making friends were limited, so we just formed good relationships with the people who were around us.
These are those words, sentences, and phrases that you will use if you travel or live in a country where people speak English and you can't speak your native language.
The Etruscans were way ahead of the village dwelling Latins, and I include the Romans here, they were way ahead of the Latins, culturally and scientifically.