Then he with vain conjecture fills his mind
Of the unheard-of race, which had arrived
At science in that solitary nook,
Far from the civil world; and sagely sighs,
And moralises on the state of man."
This hardly reads like a borrowed idea; and I should lean to a belief that it was not. Kirke White's Poems and Letters are but too little read.
J. S.
Dalston.
Cui Bono (Vol. ix., p. 76.).—Reference to a dictionary would have settled this. According to Freund, "Cui bono fuit=Zu welchem Zwecke, or Wozu war es gut?" That is, To what purpose? or, For whose good?
Carnatic.