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 blind us to the fact that in some measure accelerating the end of our lease may <WSD>be</WSD> 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:  be identical to; be someone or something