How long does it take to read The Cosmic Race?
José Vasconcelos
The Cosmic Race by José Vasconcelos takes about 2 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 19 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1997. 126 pages, about 34,650 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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 Latin America, would disappear altogether, giving birth to a fully mixed race, a "cosmic race," in which all the better qualities of each race would persist by the natural selection of love.
Subjects: Evolution, Philosophical anthropology, Race relations, Cosmology, Esthétique, Anthropologie philosophique
