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insistence on pantagruelion as the symbol and image of
printing from movable types. For this is the name of the hemp
plant from which rope was made. From the teasing and
shredding and weaving of this plant there came the lineal cords
and bonds of greatest social enterprises. And Rabelais had a
vision of the entire “world in Pantagruel’s mouth,” which is
quite literally the idea of the giganticism that issues from mere
additive association of homogeneous parts. And again his
vision was accurate as we in this century can easily testify by
retrospect. It is in his letter to Pantagruel at Paris that
Gargantua proclaims the praise of typography:
Now is it that the minds of men are qualified with all
manner of discipline, and the old sciences revived, which
for many ages were extinct: now it is, that the learned
languages are to their Pristine purity restored, viz. Greek,