Davies writes, "... in the enclosed note [not present] I have tried not only to trace the concatenation of the propositions on the papers before us, a barren effort on the part of that old ram, reason, but also by introducing him among his flock of ewes, the data, to bring to light the positive facts, and finally to ventriloquise duty to whisper low what thou must."

Davies calls BR a "jesting Pilate" for wanting to know what the truth is.