Excerpt from The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, Vol. 5: Monograph of an Immigrant Group The preceding parts of this work, though far from exhaustive, give a general outline of the psychol ogy and organization of the peasant communities in Poland and of the evolution by which these communi ties, formerly almost isolated, became integral parts of the Polish national body. We have found that, except for the higher forms of cultural productivity (litera ture, art, science, large-scale industry and commerce) in which the peasant class did not appreciably partici pate and for the maintenance and development of a state system, of which Poland was deprived, our study has involved nearly all the sociological problems which can be raised with reference to a concrete, ethnically homogeneous society which has occupied a certain ter ritory for many generations and come into the pos session of a set of social values either originally pro duced or completely assimilated during its historical ex istence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.