The effect of this education on the Hindoos is prodigious.

No Hindoo, who has received an English education, ever remains sincerely attached to his religion.

Some continue to profess it as matter of policy; but many profess themselves pure Deists, and some embrace Christianity.

It is my firm belief that, if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence.

And this will be effected without any efforts to proselytise; without the smallest interference with religious liberty; merely by the natural operation of knowledge and reflection.