Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-06-27 | Page 9 | The Age of Rabelais.

THE AGE OF OP RABELAIS In medieval mind of France Franca had escaped from the tho cloister front from Its Ita centuries of bondage had looked about upon the tho earth and the tho body and found them good to him monk and doctor there was nothing In the spiritual or phys leal ical world either cither forbidden or obscene Ha He must i know the savor of everything bits Uko Ulysses would drink life to the tho lees lie was as nature and his was the enormous laughter of great waters Ho He climbed the Apennines for the mac Inao flower and he lusted for the hidden hid den truth as its his friends the tho humanists tor or orthe the tho manuscript unseen He had followed In Imagination that truth over the tho seas and to the tho wonderful islands of Pan Pants Pants- La- La gruel and now and then he had bad glimpsed her bet oer o'er the flood or In the tho copse Ills Ilia work i Is tho rho record of that search jum jurn- jumbled bled unspeakably monstrous tend and un uncouth ml- ml couth often und and again clear calm cairn with nn an epic grandeur and simplicity He was tho earth and tried as ho lie dared daml and could to the Cite huge compelling truth but that spirit Is hampered by Us its medium and Rabelais that radical of renaissance that arch Individualist was wis bound und and gagged by those conservative forces of his time and of every tIns the church and the state Forum