Everywhere the author lays stress on the excellence of "Pantagruelism," and the reader who is himself a Pantagruelist (it is perfectly idle for any other to attempt the book) soon discovers what this means.
2
Moroseness and dogmatism are as far from the Pantagruelism of Rabelais as maudlin sentimentality or dilettantism.
3
The author has no universal medicine of his own (except Pantagruelism) to offer, nor has he anybody else's universal medicine to attack.
4
The definition of humour is a generally acknowledged crux, and till it is defined the definition of Pantagruelism will be in the same position.