dregs

sakka (collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
puhekieltä The worst and lowest part of something.

the dregs of society

Yet even now I had not drunk the bitter potion to the dregs; I was not yet persuaded of my loss; I did not yet feel in every pulsation, in every nerve, in every thought, that I remained alone of my rase - that I was The Last Man.