Given the sea's symbolic significance in The Wanting Seed, it's no surprise that the novel's final section stages Beatrice-Joanna and Tristram's happy reunion at the seashore. In fact, in the very last paragraph, the narrative voice imagines the book itself being absorbed by the natural elements:
The wind rises . . . we must try to live. The immense air opens and closes my book. The wave, pulverized, dares to gush and spatter from the rocks. Fly away, dazzled, blinded pages. Break, waves. Break with joyful waters. . . . (6.4.4)
Just as Beatrice-Joanna thinks of the sea as so much larger and more profound than any single phase of human history, so too does the novel's narrative voice think of the waters as deeper and longer lasting than the book itself. As the wind blows the pages to and fro, and the waves of the sea "gush," "splatter," and "pulverize," we get treated to one final image of the sublime, and one last reminder that human folly is short-lived in comparison to the seeming-infinity of sea.