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How strange it was that the creative instinct should seize upon this dull stockbroker, to
his own ruin, perhaps; and to the misfortune of such as were dependent on him, and yet
no stranger than the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich,
pursuing them with stubborn vigilance till at last, conquered, they have abandoned the
joy of the world and the love of women for the painful austerities of the cloister.