penetrating articles as "El que vendr," and "La novela nueva," which heralded the evolution of thinking of the new generation of men whom he was to call "new idealists." In the former work he describes the vacuum in which his generation found itself with the fall of Positivism as a scientific explanation of the universe and with Naturalism's inadequate conception of human existence, a vacuum filled with doubt, hope for guidance providing the only weapon for escape. In "La novela nueva" he speaks of new directions which seek to sound the realities of life and the