Commodities are grouped into one of 18 classes from a low of class 50 to a high of class 500 based on an evaluation of four transportation characteristics: density, stowability, handling and liability.
Patience implies suffering, enduring or waiting, as a determination of the will and not simply under necessity. As such it is an essential Christian virtue to the exercise of which there are many exhortations.
One of the definitions in Webster's Dictionary for meek is enduring injury with patience and without resentment.. Certainly each of these men qualifies for that distinction. We are told in the Bible to be meek (Eph 4:2)(Col 3:12)(1 Tim 6:11)(2 Tim 2:25)(Titus 3:2). Meekness is a trait of the fruit of the Spirit (Q: #222.) that marks a Christian (Gal 5:23).