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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: lion?"
"No," said Tarzan, "it is not our lion; it is another lion and
he is hunting."
"He is stalking us?" asked the girl.
"He is," replied the ape-man. Smith-Oldwick fingered the
grip of his pistol.
Tarzan saw the involuntary movement and shook his head.
"Leave that thing where it is, Lieutenant," he said.
The officer laughed nervously. "I couldn't help it, you know,
old man," he said; "instinct of self-preservation and all that."
"It would prove an instinct of self-destruction," said Tarzan.
Tarzan the Untamed | 
