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which they shall scale the very heavens? Who knows but
they may “contrive a way to pierce into the high aerian
clouds, and shut and open as they please the sluices from
whence proceed the floodgates of the rain . . . then,
prosecuting their ethereal voyage, they may step into the
lightning workhouse and shop . . . where, seizing on the
magazine of heaven, they may discharge a bouncing peal
or two of thundering ordnance for joy of their arrival at
these new supernal places. . . . And we the Gods shall
then not be able to resist the impetuosity of their
intrusion, . . . whatever regions, domiciles or mansions of
the spangled firmament they shall have a mind to see, to
stay in, or to travel through for their recreation.”
The Rabelais vision of new means and patterns of human
interdependence was a vista of power through applied