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    had his head covered with farina ; and a dominion of despotism took place in consequence , in various shapes , till within a late period , which might never have existed , had the men in that nation been more men from

    the first , and eschewed the evil likeness of the bee-monarch , and her drones , and stinging workmen ; an institution , good doubtless for the bees , ( so at least we are bound to think till

    we know otherwise , and out of a general sense of nature's working for the best ); but very unfit for the higher and progressive nature of men , who are as different from

    themselves at different periods , as they are always different in their best faculties from the lower orders of creation . It is those faculties we are to cultivate , and not the more brute and violent points , in which the likeness is never called forth but when we

    have reason to be ashamed of ourselves . The bees were killing drones when our ancestors sat ,, naked and painted , with their legs in a ditch . The bees are still killing drones ; their massacres make no

    difference in their institutions ; but we are now modestly clothed , and prefer a carpet to a ditch ; and our working classes are growing fit to instruct their employers , and address papers to the Queen which would very much astonish an apiary .

    These very remarks which we are here making , for instance , niay appear superfluous to certain spirits whom the habit of exercising power affects with

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    impatience , and who are not for that salutary clearance of the ground before them on their own sides , which they at

    once expect from others , and yet would fain scoff at . Bui ; the organs of the working classes will understand thernj and , we doubt not , turn them to just and kindly edification .

    Regarding , then , these organs of the working classes as kindly and thinking men , and being about to lay before the reader the Address which they have lately drawn up to her Majesty , ( and we take this

    opportunity of repeating , th&t the rejection of the monarchical argument of the bees , is not to be understood as implying on our parts the slightest hostility to a truly maternal government

    for human beings , for we see even a peculiar beauty in it )—we have two regrets to express ; first , that any bitterness of language , however natural and pardonable , was mixed up oh so solemn an occasion , with its

    objections to men over whom the writers of the address have the advantage in argument ; and , second , that the royal part of the government , especially in the person of a kindly and

    popular female , had not been advised so to act upon certain points , as to feel that it could afford to make approach to her presence easy , and give the addressers an answer .

    We leave to reflecting readers , the framers of the address included , to find out what sentences in it we could have wished unwritten ; only obsorv-

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    302 The Queen and the Working Classes .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/6/