It was commonly remarked of Lincoln that he was a "rank idealist." Morse, Watt, Marconi, Edison--all were, at first, adjudged idealists.

We say of the League of Nations that it is ideal, and we use the term in a derogatory sense.

But that was exactly what was said of the Constitution of the United States.
"Insanely ideal" was the term used of it.
The idealist, particularly to-day when there is so great need of him, is not to be scoffed at.

It is through him and only through him that the world will see a new and clear vision of what is right.

It is he who has the power of going out of himself--that self in which too many are nowadays so deeply imbedded; it is he who, in seeking the ideal, will, through his own clearer perception or that of others, transform the ideal into the real.