Truth cannot be moulded by opinion, it always moulds the recipient of it.

"The common cognomen of this world among the misguided and the superstitious is a 'vale of tears' from which we are to be redeemed by a certain arbitrary interposition of God and taken to Heaven--What a little circumscribe[d] straightened notion! Call the world if you Please "The Vale of Soul-making". Then you will find out the use of this world...