Cracking A Code, Anyone?!

[BIAD]

...I don’t know, though: it’s all just awful. Victorian-era historians saw their job as weaving narratives around Events In History for the moral edification and correct instruction of Society In General, and even many moderns would find it journalistically tempting to take McCormick’s life of denial and ignominious death as launching pads for some glib commentary on a whole set of social macro-epidemics – guns, drugs, poverty, social inequality, education, dyslexia, whatevuh...

I think this comment sums it all up and the code may be nothing more than facile column-filling material for
a insincere trade to glean readership.