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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: obscurity of early day, when we stepped again upon the deck of
the Flying Scud: Nares, myself, the mate, two of the hands, and
one dozen bright, virgin axes, in war against that massive
structure. I think we all drew pleasurable breath; so profound
in man is the instinct of destruction, so engaging is the interest
of the chase. For we were now about to taste, in a supreme
degree, the double joys of demolishing a toy and playing "Hide
the handkerchief": sports from which we had all perhaps
desisted since the days of infancy. And the toy we were to
burst in pieces was a deep-sea ship; and the hidden good for
which we were to hunt was a prodigious fortune.
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