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And here may occur a question, which might well be left to the ultra advocates of the cui bono, whether a simple flower may not sometimes be of higher use than a labor-saving machine. As to the objects whose effect on the mind is here discussed, it is needless to specify them; they are, in general, all such as are known to affect us in the manner described.
Perhaps you were our one subject in common. Then she irritated me by her calm confidence. The world was good, everybody was good. She would find a safe occupation and all would be well." "So you warned her against me," said Peter grimly. "I told her you were human and that she was attractive. Shall I make 'way with myself?" "Cui bono?" demanded Peter, smiling in spite of himself.
The view explains how the old expedition felt "every day more in love with this beautiful country," The sea-like river wants nothing but cattle on its banks to justify the description "Appunto una scena pastorale, a cui fanno Quinci il mar, quinci i colli, e d' ogn' intorno I fior, le piante, e l' ombre, e l' onde, e 'l cielo. Unteatro pomposo."
Thus, she carried out the prognostication of Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, who had opposed the prosecution. "The arguments about the place of trial suggest to my mind the question about the propriety of any trial at all," he said in a debate in the House of Lords. "Cui bono? What utility is to be obtained?
A making of meal into manure, and of manure into meal. To the cui bono there is no answer from logic. In many ways Jane Welsh found the difference of range between Carlyle and Irving. At one time, she asked Irving about some German works, and he was obliged to send her to Carlyle to solve her difficulties.
On the other hand, which is to our advantage, the isolation of the unfit in one political party has thrown up the extremists in what the Babu called 'all their naked cui bono. These last are after satisfying the two chief desires of primitive man by the very latest gadgets in scientific legislation.
But the point is that it happened to be the bit of work put into my hands, and at least I did my best. What more can any of us say? Again I ask: How about the "Cui Bono" argument? In this same year I remember another curious incident. I was staying in London during the season, and some girl friends were very anxious that I should meet a lady whom they knew intimately and wished me to know also.
Without Caesar, we affirm a thousand times that there would have been no perfect Rome; and, but for Rome, there could have been no such man as Caesar. Both then were immortal; each worthy of each. And the Cui viget nihil simile aut secundum of the poet, was as true of one as of the other.
What the devil! Man is not a solitary animal cui Deus foeminam tradit. Make me king's pantler, make me Abbot of St. Denis, make me bailie of the Patatrac, and then I shall be changed indeed. But as long as you leave me the poor scholar Francis Villon, without a farthing, why, of course, I remain the same." "The grace of God is all powerful." "I should be a heretic to question it," said Francis.
It is that of making many confidantes. Here comes a very serious cui bono. Undoubtedly there is a momentary satisfaction in telling one's woes and sorrows to an interested listener. When the auditor is a friend, and a trusted friend, whose sympathy is genuine and whose discretion is vast, there is a comfort beyond description in unburdening one's soul. But there is a line to be drawn even here.
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