48 SIR ISAAC NEWTON. 



and sixty thousand dollars, to be divided among his 

 nephews and nieces. 



The world honored him at last, and has through 

 all the years. Bishop Burnet said, " Newton had 

 the whitest soul he ever knew." His habits were 

 of the best. When asked to take snuff or tobacco, 

 he declined, saying, " he would make no necessities 

 to himself." 



He was modest to the last, saying, " that what- 

 ever service he had done the public was not owing 

 to any extraordinary sagacity, but solely to in- 

 dustry and patient thought." He said, a short 

 time before his death: "I do not know what I 

 may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to 

 have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, 

 and diverting myself in now and then finding a 

 smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, 

 whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered 

 before me." 



