He must add something to it: either he must make its people better and happier, or he must make the face of the world fairer to look at.

And the one really means the other.
"Idealism," immediately say some.

Of course, it is.

But what is the matter with idealism?
What really is idealism?
Do one-tenth of those who use the phrase so glibly know its true meaning, the part it has played in the world?
The worthy interpretation of an ideal is that it embodies an idea--a conception of the imagination.

All ideas are at first ideals.