XVIII. Cortés and Mexico City
English · Español Identifier: GE-016. Original Publication: Novedades — Editorial Section , May 10, 1948. Author: LIC. OSCAR MÉNDEZ CERVANTES. Topics: Philosophy and Culture; History and the Hispanic World. Fragments of the Epic By LIC. OSCAR MÉNDEZ CERVANTES XVIII CORTÉS AND MEXICO CITY. From the beautiful and highly original unpublished pages on Don Hernando de Cortés written by Dr. Ernesto González Aguilar, it is well now to highlight and offer the following fragments, full of a vigorous suggestiveness that invites us to dwell on them in a fruitful attitude of reflection: “… Mexico City was not just any city, lost in the anonymity of contingent cities. It was the city that ruled a land, the visible head of a homeland, and the seat of a state, and therefore a city whose existence was necessary to explain a history. “For there are two kinds of cities: the ordinary kind, whose existence is a matter of indifference, and the select kind, which must necessarily exist. Cities ...