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The British state and constitution designed as a bee hive, the structure with fifty four cells, each containing an image of a profession or institution, the monarchy at the top, then politics, religion, law, arts and sciences, trades and agriculture, the bank and the military and navy all represented with vignettes and lettered with descriptions (1867)
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