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great Ram mohan Roy, scholar, reformer and founder of the theistic church (the Brahmo Samaj) of India was strongly opposed to any scheme of education from which spiritual teaching and exercise were excluded. A gentleman once told him of a teacher of the newly established Hindu college in Calcutta that he had begun the world as a deist, then he had turned a polytheist and he was now an atheist; upon which Ram mohan remarked that the teacher's next step was to be a beast and that he should be at once removed from the college.