We cannot expect the refined virtues of a highly artificial civilization from frontiersmen who for generations have been roughened and hardened by the same kind of ferocious wilderness toil that once fell to the lot of their remote barbarian ancestors.
This quote illustrates Roosevelt's understanding of the rugged nature of frontiersmen and their historical context.
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