Sentence:  We should not allow the image of an immanent end brought about indirectly by our own action in the continuing human struggle for a just endurable order of existence to <WSD>blind</WSD> us to the fact that in some measure accelerating the end of our lease may be one consequence among others of many other of mankind 's thrusts toward we know not what future . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  make blind by putting the eyes out