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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: sailors there were also some of the artificers themselves who
felt no such scruples, and in this way these difficulties were
the more easily surmounted. In matters where life is in
danger it becomes necessary to treat even unfounded prejudices
with tenderness, as an accident, under certain circumstances,
would not only have been particularly painful to those giving
directions, but have proved highly detrimental to the work,
especially in the early stages of its advancement.
At four o'clock fifty-eight persons landed; but the tides
being extremely languid, the water only left the higher parts
of the rock, and no work could be done at the site of the
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