The actual is not the truth. It is the part of the truth that has been attained. The ideal is the truth - the whole truth. Facts did not create an ideal. Facts cannot destroy it.
Facts destroy but facts.
Ideals can only be defended by ideals. The facts, though they have incalculable modifying value, did not create the truth. Nothing is more real than the ideal. Mountains are made of vapor, and the soil of the ground is as the dust of clouds beside it. Brick and mortar are built upon it.