Translation of "augmentum" into English

Huic praeterea respondet tota maturitas animi corporisque: augmentum est cunctarum virium, quibus constituitur plerumque singularis homo.

It is the time of psychophysical development: the growth of all the energies through which normal human individuality is built up.

Ad hanc rem etiam augmentum praxis mutationis usus soli contulit, praesertim vastatio silvarum ob agrorum cultum.

Another determining factor has been an increase in changed uses of the soil, principally deforestation for agricultural purposes.