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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: forceful and inadvisable: "By Heaven, you SHALL eat it! . . ."
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Benham's detestation of human divisions and hostilities was so deep
in his character as to seem almost instinctive. But he had too a
very clear reason for his hostility to all these amazing breaks in
human continuity in his sense of the gathering dangers they now
involve. They had always, he was convinced, meant conflict, hatred,
misery and the destruction of human dignity, but the new conditions
of life that have been brought about by modern science were making
them far more dangerous than they had ever been before. He believed
that the evil and horror of war was becoming more and more
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