The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.

His duty to God Henry would always have acknowledged.

A historian so widely different from Froude as Bishop Stubbs has pointed out that, if mere self-indulgence had been the king's object, the infinite pains he took to obtain a Papal divorce from Katharine of Aragon would have been thrown away.

That he had a duty to his neighbour, male or female, never entered his head.

His subjects were his own, to deal with as he pleased.
Revolting as this theory may seem now, it was held by most people then, and there was not a man in England, not Sir Thomas More himself, who would have told the King that it was untrue.
It is with the divorce of Katharine that the difficulty of estimating Henry begins.