James Mackintosh
James Mackintosh
Sir James Mackintoshwas a Scottish jurist, Whig politician and historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a journalist, judge, administrator, professor, philosopher and politician...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth24 October 1765
James Mackintosh quotes about
wealth labor productive
The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.
generosity taught fiction
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.