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 idolator 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. I heartily rejoice in the prospect.'"
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Letter written to his father in 1836. Quoted in Indian Church History Review (December 1973), p. 187. Partially quoted in S. R. Goel, History of Hindu-Christian Encounters, AD 304 to 1996 (2016), ch. 13. Quoted from Koenraad Elst, The Argumentative Hindu (2012), ch. 3