I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
Hoar uses the metaphor of the sea to illustrate the importance of calmness in understanding depth.
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