Excerpt from Philip II of Spain

For three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip II. Of Spain. Until our own times no attempt even had been made to write his life-history from an impartial point Of view. He had been alternately deified and execrated, until through the mists of time and prejudice he loomed rather as the permanent embodiment Of a system than as an individual man swayed by changing circumstances and controlled by human frailties.

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