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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: carelessness with which--if the story told by Chytraeus, on the
authority of Buchanan's nephew, be true--James signed away his crown
to Buchanan for fifteen days, and only discovered his mistake by
seeing Bachanan act in open court the character of King of Scots.
Buchanan had at last made him a scholar; he may have fancied that he
had made him likewise a manful man: yet he may have dreaded that,
as James grew up, the old inclinations would return in stronger and
uglier shapes, and that flattery might be, as it was after all, the
cause of James's moral ruin. He at least will be no flatterer. He
opens the dialogue which he sends to the king, with a calm but
distinct assertion of his mother's guilt, and a justification of the
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