The ongoing fusion of the white, black, indigenous, and Asian peoples in Latin America will generate a new 'cosmic' fifth race that absorbs and surpasses the virtues of each ancestral stock. This mixture is treated as the next stage of human development rather than as degeneration.
History advances through three successive periods: the material or warrior stage ruled by brute force, the intellectual or political stage ruled by reason and law, and the coming spiritual or aesthetic stage ruled by beauty and emotion. In the final stage, people will unite and mate guided by love and taste rather than by necessity or calculation.
Latin America's racial heterogeneity, which others diagnose as its weakness and cause of backwardness, is reframed as its unique advantage and mission. The very impurity that Anglo-Saxon purism avoids is read as the precondition for producing a more complete humanity.
Two civilizational strategies are contrasted: the Anglo-Saxon pattern of conquering by excluding and displacing other races, and the Latin or Ibero-American pattern of conquering by assimilating and blending with them. The author bets that the inclusive model, though materially weaker now, will prevail because it alone can produce the universal race.