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Crowding, rapid change and the breakdown of communities have been widely recognized as sources of social problems. But we do not believe they are enough to account for the extent of the problems that are seen today.

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擁擠及社群的快速改變與崩解被廣泛認為是社會問題的來源。但我們不認為它們足以造成今日所見如此嚴重程度的問題。

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A few pre-industrial cities were very large and crowded, yet their inhabitants do not seem to have suffered from psychological problems to the same extent as modern man. In America today there still are uncrowded rural areas, and we find there the same problems as in urban areas, though the problems tend to be less acute in the rural areas. Thus crowding does not seem to be the decisive factor.

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一些工業化前的城市非常龐大和擁擠，然而它們的居民似乎沒有如同現代人遭受同樣程度的心理問題。在今日的美洲仍有不擁擠的鄉間，我們亦發現和都市相同的問題，雖然在鄉間通常問題比較不那麼嚴重。因此擁擠似乎不是具決定性的因子。