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cause. Other influences besides physical environment are, however, 

 at work, beyond question. This is especially the case in Poland! 

 This unhappy country is the adopted fatherland of millions of Jews. 



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There are almost more here than in all the rest of Europe put to- 

 gether. These Jews are one of the most stunted peoples in Europe. 

 In how far this is the result of centuries of oppression, and in what 

 degree it is an inherent ethnic trait, we need not stop to consider. It 



