The Cosmic Race
Vasconcelos, Jose / Vasconcelos
In this influential 1925 essay, presented here in Spanish and English, Jose Vasconcelos predicted the coming of a new age, the Aesthetic Era, in which joy, love, fantasy, and creativity, would prevail over the rationalism he saw as dominating the present age. In this new age, marriages would no longer be dictated by necessity or convenience, but by love and beauty, ethnic obstacles, already in the process of being broken down, especially in La...