Great Extent Quotes
He was describing England before the Industrial Revolution. The manufacturer / artisan owned his own home and had a small garden. He was not paid very well, but if business was slow his family could subsist by growing his own food and animals. With the Industrial Revolution came specialization as well as mechanization. If business was bad hundreds or thousands of workers had no way to make a living.
The danger of racial and ethnic interbreeding was a fabricated myth. We now know that the danger can come from pure breeding and not obtaining enough genetic diversity. One reason that man has been so successful is that the species is the product of very extensive genetic diversity. For example EVERY human being on the planet had some genetic relationship to a Black African woman.
Although most people of old many of the ancient world understood the spherical earth over a thousand years before Galileo was persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church for stating that fact. See {590334} for another ancient view. Note that Strabo talks of seamen who tried to circumnavigate the earth so it was a generally held view of the sophisticated at the time of Christ.
