If Roan Long was deficient in science and activity

If Roan Long was deficient in science and activity

If Roan Long was deficient in science and activity

If Roan Long was deficient in science and activity, and did not cut the brilliant figure in the wrestling ring that some of his contemporaries did, he, nevertheless, habitually maintained through a long span of existence, many points of much greater importance, in a social viewsuch, for example, as plodding perseverance, singleness of purpose, and sturdy independence of charactertraits in themselves truly commendable, and far above any merely nominal honours which the wrestling arena could bestow.