“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.” FictionVirtueTaughtHighestGenerosityContemptUtility Book:Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh Source: Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh