48 SIR ISAAC NEWTON. 



thirty thousand pounds to be divided among his 

 nephews and nieces. 



The world honored him at last, and has through 

 all the years. Bishop Burn et 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." 



