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5. Now if we were to take instances of successful merchants or leading professional men who never changed their calling, we should find the same phenomenon: i.e., an intense interest in their work, and consequently a fitness of their minds for the duties to be discharged. In this sense, there are born grocers, just as there are born poets; provision dealing may be an object of such ardent zeal that it almost rises to the level of a love of writing sonnets; the spirit of romance enters into buying and selling, thereby surrounding it with a glamour that makes the merchant something more than a dull trader. Ribot, the great French psychologist, has proved that imagination can be as glowing and as active in material matters as in those that are more spiritual.