The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-05-20

WILL enter Washington on the 2Otf
w of May, and exhibit for four days only
| (2Oth, 2lst, 22d, and ODD Four-and-a-hal
street, near Pennsylvania avenue.
On the day of their entrance into Washington thu
procession will be Joined by new accession of an
imas, lately arrived in Philadelphia and New York
and will join the menagerie in this city, forming q
better selection and greater variety Of wild beast:
than was ever before exhibited in this place. The
ferocous lion used by Mr.. Carter in London, the
monster white bear from the Royal Garden in Paris
| together with twelve large wagon-loads Of animals
will be added to the menagerie at Washington. The
performance of the celebrated Mr. Pierce with the
animals is Of superior kind. For description OF
animals and Mr.. Perces performance, the public
are respectfully referred to the bills posted in the
principal hotels.
NPTO the Public.-There is no study that
is more important to the youth of a rising genera
ton or to adult age, than that of natural history
1t teaches man his superiority the brute
ton, and creates in his bosom a knowledge of the
wisdom goodness and omnipresence of gu
preme and all-wse Creator. 1t also teaches him
how entirely dependent he is on the providence Of
God; it elevates his character and fits him for the
discharge of the nobler duties ofhfe.
In the beg inning Of the world, as we are taught
by the Holy Scriptures, God said unto man, "And
TO every beast of the EARTH and to every fowl Of the
air. and TO every thing that creepeth upon the earth
wherein there is life, surrender to thy CONTROL and
tn GU shalt have dominion the fish Of the sea,
anG over the fowls of the air, and every thing that
moveth upon the earth, shalt thou have domin-
ION"
When this power and dominion was given by
the Almighty to man, it was intended, by his wis
dom, that he, unto whom he had con6ded so much
should become acquainted and familiar with the
subjects over which he should exercise his rule
Hence it became necessary that man should study
al lDnu.
ter of a science on which his own happiness de-
pended, and which, when developed, could not fail
to advance the great of civilization and learn
ing.
So fully was all this appreciated, in the early
stages of civilization, religion, and light that the
early founders Of Christianity in Europe and Eng.
land collected immense menageries, to which they
introduced their children, and taught them that all
animated nature proved the existence of that God
whose gospel they taught, and whose law was par
amount to all others, and must be obeyed.
We read that st. Augustin, soon after he estab-
lished himself at Canterbury, and there reared the
blessed cross, collected from all the remote nations
of the earth that were accessible, specimens of the
animal world, and taught his monks that the study
Of natural history was not only essential to common
intelligence, but to the propagation of religion itself
In more recent times, all of the enlightened States
Of Europe, in obedience to the commands of their
sorereigns, have at vast labor and expense estab-
shed institutes, made up Of the animal world, for
the purpose of aiding the propagation and advance
n1ent OF science and useful knowledge. England,
France, Italy, Germany-in fact, all modern Eu-
rope, have, for centuries back, paid unremittng
tention to this subject and that nation of Europe
which has not its national historical institute is
garded on that backward course that leads in the
end TO semi-barbaric ignorance and folly.
A superior brass band is attached to the establish
ment.
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