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    The mention of the Queen and the Working Classes in the same breath , naturally calls to mind the old comparison of human society with the beehive , —a similitude as remarkably unlike in some respects , as it is like in others , and which

    we here advert to , not for the purpose of begging the question against any class , but of making an observation or two that may be good for all . It may appear superfluous to repeat that we have no ill-will to the Tories , however we may differ with them , or with

    whatever occasional harshness we may speak of the less reflecting of their party ; but we think it is good for a man ' s self-knowledge and right use of his opposition , as well as for the sake of

    fair play to those whom he opposes , to keep constantly before him , and proclaim aloud to others , the right that all men have to a consideration of the circumstances that make them

    respectively what they are . In the midst of our zeal to change or amend what is erroneous in the causes that so make thejn , we thus remind ourselves < of our own liabilities , as fellow ^

    creatures , to the same pepversion—prevent willanjrt passion from talcing possessi on of , ' us at the core , to the ceaseless perpetuation of t ^ iscordr ^ anicl

    tend finally to rescue the great human heart from tfo £ longest and worst cauls ' of ifee &eUf l of thegnemigoM , [ ; ;; ;

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    We havte shown , in anotlier publication , the general futility of the comparison between bees and men , and the strange blindness with which some

    writers have turned it into an argument for monarchy being " a thing in nature" Monarchy undoubtedly is a thing in nature , and so is everything which exists iii nature , under

    whatever eircuinstances , even those which oppose nature . But if monarchy , being a thing in the nature of bees , is therefore a thing in the nature of

    men , her present gracious and astonished Majesty , after blindly killing some rival queen , should suddenly awake to a sense that she was ( literally ) the mother of all the workmen

    in her kingdom !—the workmen ( Hibernice ) should also turn out to be all females ; the males would do nothing but eat and

    drink , not even caring to administer the government ; and every year , on some fine morning in autumn , the women , in a frenzy of industrious indignation , or out of some blind or

    lamenting seiwe of necessity for , the removal of a nuisance , should rise in a body , and stab every man drone of them to the heart ! Some such effeminate exercise pf rage did indeed

    t ^ e place , , j $ a human community , ofv $ r tfie ^ ftter some forty or fifty years ago , with a StraW ^ hb £ e it the head of it , ' called'Rbbesmerre , who wore ji'iiO ^ e ^ ay ^ Ij jiis bosom , and

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    ! I'HE QtFEEtf ANJ > THE WORKING ClASSES .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 301, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/5/