But a great true thought never dies--though long buried in the earth--and the day was to come, after long years, when the seed was to ripen into a harvest of civil and religious emancipation, and when the very word toleration was to sound like an insult and an absurdity.
A vast responsibility rested upon the head of a monarch, placed as Philip II.

found himself, at this great dividing point in modern history.

To judge him, or any man in such a position, simply from his own point of view, is weak and illogical.

History judges the man according to its point of view.

It condemns or applauds the point of view itself.