The last paragraph (that which summarizes,)

The Summarizing Paragraph. In the writ¬ing of exposition we must aim constantly to be economical in the amount of attention we demand from our readers. The paragraph which outlines at the beginning of a theme the leading heads of what we are to say is one device for making our thought easy for others to grasp. The paragraph at the close, which puts, in a nutshell, the leading points we have made, is another useful device, for it isolates for the hearer or reader a few important facts around which he can group those of minor importance. The following is an example of the summarizing para¬graph: These, then, were the two prime characteristics which sum. up the tendencies of Burke's age : An enormous development of industry, and the first germs of the substitution of the government of a whole people by itself, for the exploded and tottering system of gov¬ernment by privileged orders.

—JOHN MORLEY, Edmund Burke: A Historical Study.