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
wealth labor productive
The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.
self vices harbors
A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
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.
work frivolous polished
The frivolous work of polished idleness.