BR argues that current poor conditions are the direct and logical result of past idealistic conditions. Where Ossowski argues that patriotism (especially that of Poland) can be good, BR challenges that ideals do not lead to the ideal.

This may have been an enclosure for a lost personal reply; the typescript, which has corrections in Russell's hand, lacks the normal features of a letter. It is the delivered copy of record 2429 and is presumably the version published by Antoni Sułek in Stanisław Ossowski w pełnym blasku.