Meges threw a spear well piled.

In a society where it is important to get a (first panel surplus) advantage over other persons, the young man tends to surrender his individual ideals and to adopt instead, as a mask, the ideals and purposes and language and philosophy that make up a sort of common denominator for the mafia or predatory agglutination that is bound together in the greedful quest.

[B]eing us'd to this ſedentary Diverſion, … he grew mighty cogitabund, from whence a Frenzy ſeiz'd on Him, and He turn'd Enthuſiaſt like one of our French Prophets, and went about Prognoſticating the Downfall of the King and Popery, which were Terms ſynonimous at that time of Day.

The feuding for control of the Jersey waterfront made news as sluggings, bombings, and beatings continued on the Jersey City docks.