History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . cussing his claim to be the soleand divinely appointedruler of England. Itis atheism and blas-phemy, he declared, to dispute what Godcan do; ... so it ispresumption and highcontempt in a subjectto dispute what a kingcan do, or say that aking cannot do this orthat. James was alearned man and wasfond of writing those that hepublished was a workon monarchs, in whichhe claimed that theking could make anylaw he pleased without consulting Parliament; that he was themaster of every one of his subjects, hi
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . cussing his claim to be the soleand divinely appointedruler of England. Itis atheism and blas-phemy, he declared, to dispute what Godcan do; ... so it ispresumption and highcontempt in a subjectto dispute what a kingcan do, or say that aking cannot do this orthat. James was alearned man and wasfond of writing those that hepublished was a workon monarchs, in whichhe claimed that theking could make anylaw he pleased without consulting Parliament; that he was themaster of every one of his subjects, high and low, and might put todeath whom he pleased. A good king would act according to law,but is not bound to do so and has the power to change the law atany time to suit himself. 828. The Divine Right of Kings. These theories seemstrange and very unreasonable to us, but James was only trying tojustify the powers which the Tudor monarchs had actually exer-cised, and which the kings of France enjoyed down to the FrenchRevolution of 1789. According to the theory of the divine right. Fig. 145. James I Struggle in England between King and Parliament 567 of kings it had pleased God to appoint the monarch the fatherof his people, who must obey him as they would God and askno questions. The king was responsible to God alone, to whomhe owed his powers, not to Parliament or the nation. Thesenotions were supposed to be based on the teachings of the Bible. It is unnecessary to follow the troubles between James I andParliament, for his reign only forms the preliminary to the fatalexperiences of his son, Charles I, who came to the throne in 1625. 829. Great Writers of Jamess Reign—Shakespeare, Bacon,Harvey. The writers of Jamess reign constituted its chief outshone those of any other European country. Shake-speare is generally admitted to be the greatest dramatist that theworld has produced. While he wrote many of his plays before thedeath of Elizabeth, some of his finest—Oth
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