324 MEMOIR OF MR. EDWARD HOBSON. 
Hobson’s example should be lost; and many proofs 
might be furnished of the excellent effect it has 
already had in leading others, similiarly circum- 
stanced, to seek for relaxation and enjoyment in 
the same inexhaustible resources. We may, there- 
fore, fairly hope, that the day is not far distant, 
when this great Metropolis of Commerce will not 
be more distinguished for the opportunities it 
holds out, to all classes, for advancement in know- 
ledge and virtue, than for the number of its in- 
habitants, that, availing themselves of these ines- 
timable privileges, afford to the world, in the 
superiority of their characters and acquirements, 
the most encouraging proofs of the value of these 
institutions to the comfort and happiness of society. 
