century later, for stirring the dormant fancies of the 
     public until they grew into demands. Both careers 
     centered round the same problem: How might the 
     instruments of comfort, that in Europe were 
     unquestionably reserved to the financially privileged class, 
     become democratized?

Rabelais is concerned with the democratization of knowledge by 
the abundance of wines from the printing press. For the press 
is named from the technology it borrowed from the wine press. 
Applied knowledge from the press led eventually to comfort as 
much as to learning.

     If there is any doubt whether the Cadmus myth uses 
“dragon’s teeth” as an allusion to the technology of the 
hieroglyph, there need be none at all about Rabelais’s