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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