Those who attack truth can only fail. Those who protect their presumptions can only fail. Only one of the two however can align the mind to its reality. Truth is too often a presumption that "gets away with it. " Where we succeed, we take pride ... in ourselves. Where we fail, truth wins our deepest respect. It is a morality hard enough for reality only if it is of and for that reality. What the senses cut up and take in, cognition returns in its own form. The positive function of cognitive truths is to align the mind to its reality, not to pass themselves off as reality itself - for example, not as air-vibrations provoking a conditioned response of believing itself not to be such. To fulfill its positive function, Truth forever compromises itself for the realization of the moralist. If not, then the morality itself is the original sin.