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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: world, Don Carlos, only son of Philip II. and heir-apparent of
Spain, the Netherlands, and all the Indies. A short sickly boy of
sixteen, with a bull head, a crooked shoulder, a short leg, and a
brutal temper, he will not be missed by the world if he should die.
His profligate career seems to have brought its own punishment. To
the scandal of his father, who tolerated no one's vices save his
own, as well as to the scandal of the university authorities of
Alcala, he has been scouring the streets at the head of the most
profligate students, insulting women, even ladies of rank, and
amenable only to his lovely young stepmother, Elizabeth of Valois,
Isabel de la Paz, as the Spaniards call her, the daughter of
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