Yet, if the uncouth borderers were as brutal as the highly polished Greeks, they were more manly; defeat was not necessarily considered disgrace, a man often fighting when he was certain to be beaten, while the onlookers neither hooted nor pelted the conquered.
Roosevelt reflects on the manliness and honor in the brutal contests of early American borderers compared to the Greeks.
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