Sea Leviathans vs Familiar Land Animals
While some naturalists have claimed all land creatures have sea counterparts, meaningful comparisons prove difficult. The ocean provides no fish with disposition remotely resembling the sagacious kindness of a dog; only the accursed shark offers any generic analogy to land animals.
Differences Between Sea and Land Creatures
The native inhabitants of the seas have always inspired unsocial and repelling emotions in landsmen. The sea remains an everlasting unknown territory, having swallowed countless ships and crews throughout history, with the ocean destined to forever threaten human endeavors upon it.
The Sea as a Merciless Foe to Humanity
Despite humanity’s scientific advancement, the sea will eternally insult, murder, and pulverize the mightiest vessels. Yet through constant exposure to these facts, humans have lost their primal sense of the ocean’s full terror. The first boats sailed on waters that had whelmed entire worlds, and that same destructive ocean continues claiming ships today.
The Sea’s Hostility to Its Own Creatures
The sea proves itself a fiend not only to human intruders but also to its own offspring, sparing none of the creatures it has spawned. Like a savage tigress that destroys her own cubs, the sea dashes even the mightiest whales against rocks, showing no mercy and recognizing no power but its own.
Hidden Dangers and Subtlety of the Sea
The ocean’s most dreaded creatures glide unseen beneath the surface, treacherously hidden despite the loveliest azure tints that adorn its waters. Danger lurks beneath apparent beauty throughout the marine world.
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