Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Reasonableness and Efficacy of Prayer To borrow the words of Guizot: Alone, of all living beings on the earth, man prays. There is not among all his moral instincts a more uni versal, a more invincible one than prayer. The child betakes himself to it with ready docility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.