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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: Which side, in that war of light and darkness, George Buchanan took,
is notorious. He saw then, as others have seen since, that the two
men in Scotland who were capable of being her captains in the strife
were Knox and Murray; and to them he gave in his allegiance heart
and soul.
This is the critical epoch in Buchanan's life. By his conduct to
Queen Mary he must stand or fall. It is my belief that he will
stand. It is not my intention to enter into the details of a matter
so painful, so shocking, so prodigious; and now that that question
is finally set at rest, by the writings both of Mr. Froude and Mr.
Burton, there is no need to allude to it further, save where
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