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chapters, full of quaint erudition, practical knowledge and
poetic enthusiasm, which, at the end of the third book, he
devotes to the praise of the blessed herb Pantagruelion.
Literally, Pantagruelion is mere hemp; symbolically, it is
human industry. Capping the wildest achievements of his
own times with wilder boast and prophecy, Rabelais first
shows man, by virtue of this Pantagruelion, exploring the
remotest regions of his globe, “so that Taproban hath
seen the heaths of Lapland, and both the Javas, the
Riphaean Mountains.” Men “scoured the Atlantic Ocean,
passed the tropics, pushed through the torrid zone,
measured all the Zodiac, sported under the equinoctial,
having both poles level with their horizon.” Then, “all
marine and terrestrial gods were on a sudden all afraid.”
What is to prevent Pantagruel and his children from
discovering some still more potent herb, by means of