Conclusion.

I part with this essay with reluctance, conscious of many defects, and feeling how much better it might have been, considering the greatness of the subject. It is, however, some satisfaction to find, in looking over the pages written, and comparing them with the remarks of His Excellency the Governor at the closing of the Exhibition, that the same idea is conveyed throughout—namely, that not in sudden, desperate efforts to achieve a position as a great manufacturing country, but rather in a constant pressing onward, is the desired end to be achieved; and that the retrospect of the last twenty years gives us the greatest possible encouragement for the future.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.