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91:3.1 [[Children]], when first [[learning]] to make use of [[language]], are prone to [[think]] out loud, to [[express]] their [[thoughts]] in [[words]], even if no one is present to hear them. With the [[dawn]] of [[creative]] [[imagination]] they evince a [[tendency]] to converse with imaginary companions. In this way a budding [[ego]] seeks to hold [[communion]] with a fictitious [[alter ego]]. By this [[technique]] the child early learns to [[convert]] his monologue conversations into pseudo [[dialogues]] in which this [[alter ego]] makes replies to his verbal [[thinking]] and [[wish]] [[expression]]. Very much of an adult's [[thinking]] is mentally carried on in [[conversational]] [[form]].

91:3.1 [[Children]], when first [[learning]] to make use of [[language]], are prone to [[think]] out loud, to [[express]] their [[thoughts]] in [[words]], even if no one is present to hear them. With the [[dawn]] of [[creative]] [[imagination]] they evince a [[tendency]] to converse with imaginary companions. In this way a budding [[ego]] seeks to hold [[communion]] with a fictitious [[alter ego]]. By this [[technique]] the child early learns to [[convert]] his monologue conversations into pseudo [[dialogues]] in which this [[alter ego]] makes replies to his verbal [[thinking]] and [[wish]] [[expression]]. Very much of an adult's [[thinking]] is mentally carried on in [[conversational]] [[form]].

91:3.2 The early and [[primitive]] form of [[prayer]] was much like the semimagical [[recitations]] of the present-day [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toda_people Toda tribe], [[prayers]] that were not addressed to anyone in particular. But such [[techniques]] of praying tend to evolve into the [[dialogue]] type of [[communication]] by the [[emergence]] of the [[idea]] of an [[alter ego]]. In time the alter-ego [[concept]] is exalted to a superior [[status]] of [[divine]] [[dignity]], and [[prayer]] as an [[agency]] of [[religion]] has appeared. Through many [[phases]] and during long ages this [[primitive]] type of praying is destined to evolve before ''attaining'' the level of [[intelligent]] and truly ethical [[prayer]].

91:3.2 The early and [[primitive]] form of [[prayer]] was much like the semimagical [[recitations]] of the present-day [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toda_people Toda tribe], [[prayers]] that were not addressed to anyone in particular. But such [[techniques]] of praying tend to evolve into the [[dialogue]] type of [[communication]] by the [[emergence]] of the [[idea]] of an [[alter ego]]. In time the alter-ego [[concept]] is exalted to a superior [[status]] of [[divine]] [[dignity]], and [[prayer]] as an [[agency]] of [[religion]] has appeared. Through many [[phases]] and during long ages this [[primitive]] type of praying is destined to evolve before ''attaining'' the level of [[intelligent]] and truly ethical [[prayer]].

91:3.3 As it is conceived by [[successive]] [[generations]] of praying [[mortals]], the [[alter ego]] evolves up through [[ghosts]], [[fetishes]], and spirits to [[polytheistic]] gods, and [[eventually]] to the One [[God]], a [[divine]] [[being]] embodying the highest [[ideals]] and the loftiest [[aspirations]] of the praying [[ego]]. And thus does [[prayer]] [[function]] as the most [[potent]] [[agency]] of [[religion]] in the [[conservation]] of the highest [[values]] and [[ideals]] of those who pray. From the [[moment]] of the conceiving of an [[alter ego]] to the [[appearance]] of the [[concept]] of a [[divine]] and heavenly [[Father]], prayer is always a socializing, moralizing, and spiritualizing [[practice]].

91:3.3 As it is conceived by [[successive]] [[generations]] of praying [[mortals]], the [[alter ego]] evolves up through [[ghosts]], [[fetishes]], and spirits to [[polytheistic]] gods, and [[eventually]] to the One [[God]], a [[divine]] [[being]] embodying the highest [[ideals]] and the loftiest [[aspirations]] of the praying [[ego]]. And thus does [[prayer]] [[function]] as the most [[potent]] [[agency]] of [[religion]] in the [[conservation]] of the highest [[values]] and [[ideals]] of those who pray. From the [[moment]] of the conceiving of an [[alter ego]] to the [[appearance]] of the [[concept]] of a [[divine]] and heavenly [[Father]], prayer is always a socializing, moralizing, and spiritualizing [[practice]].