To read this document in the twenty-first century is a disorienting and often disturbing experience. Its prose are polished, its citations are voluminous, its framing is calm and procedural but its premise is immoral. And that is precisely what makes it so dangerous as an artifact and so important as an object of study. The anonymous author does not rant but instead reasons, or performs the act of reasoning, with the methodical confidence of someone who expects his audience to accept his p...