lived 10 the age of 80, and has been dead nearly 40 years.
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 Sir Isaac .fcwton.-fir. Blot, in his

 Life of Sir Isaac Newton, has endeav-

 ered to pro,e, on the testimony of |,

 manuscript note of Iiuygens, buttress- cd by various collateral facts, ts.at Sir

 isaac Newton became derangcd ID mlnd

 ln consequence of the destruction Of his

 manuscript by his dog Dianon; and

 that ne never recovered his mental pow-

 CTS sufficiently to produce any great

 "ofk after thls epoch, though ke was

 only 4 years old at the lime. N. de fa Place cxnltingly adds, that this ac-

 counts for fhe author of the ps.nei,,i.

 turning his thoughts to theology, and

 writing on prophecy and biblical criti- cism, which Voltairc sneeringly urged as proof that the most exalted mind IS not always free from supcrstitious eredulity. Till the publication of M. Biot's memoir, these alleged facts were wholly unknown in England or else. where, either from writing or tradition; but they have been lately extensively circulated under high auspices in this country, in the Life of Newton by.tIe Society for the diffusion, of useful knowledge;o who, 10 their disgrace be it spoken, have not only adopted Nj. Biot's statement, but also the iufdel snecrs grounded upon 1t. Most happy. therefore are VIC in being able 10 inform our readers, that Dr. Brewster, in his Life of Newton, just published in Mur- rays Family Library, has collected {. number of interesting facts bearing ur~ on the point, from which, though it cer- tainly appears that Newton labored ur- der q temporary nervous irritability,. caused by fever and want of rest. vet that It was only temporary; that his cx- .crtons, mathematical, theological and critical, bear powerful testimony to his vigorous powers of mind at the very period of his alleged incompetency: : and that all his theological publications were composed in the vigor of life. be- fore the illness which is said to have af. feeted his reason. We may take an of detailing the facts more . fully, as we'll assome other interesting particulars in Dr. Brewster-s vaIuahle but in tic mean time our readers may procure the book for tllen- selves. It does great honor both to Hr. Brewster and MT. Murray's popular series; and particularly for the praise worthy anxiety with which the deeply scientific writer rebuts the insinuations of skeptics against Christianitv.-Lon- don Christian Obserrer.