The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-05-19
WILL enter Washington on the ?

WILL enter Washington on the goth
w of May, and EXHIBIT for four days only,
(2Uth, 2lst, 22d, and 23d,) on Four-and-a half
| street, near Pennsylvania avenue.
On the day of their entrance into Washington the
procession will be joined by new accession of an
imals, lately arrived in Philadelphia and New York,
and will join the menagerie in this city, forming
better selection and greater variety Of wild beasts
than ives before exhibited in this place. The
| ferocious lion used by Mr.. Carter in London the
monster white bear from the Royal Garden in Paris,
together with twelve large wagonoads of animals,
will be added TO the menagerie at Washington. The
performance of the celebrated Mr.. Pierce with the
animals is of a superior kind. For description of
ANIMALS and Mr.. Pierce's performance, the public
are respectfully referred to the bills posted in the
principal hotels
UTTO the Pubitc.-There is no study that
is more important to the youth of rising genera
tion or to adult age, than that of natural history.
II teaches man his superiority the brute crea.
! ton and creates in his bosom u knowledge of the
| wisdom and goodness and omn presence Of a su-
preme and al-wse Creator. 1t also teaches hi m
now entirely dependent he is on the providence of
God; it eevates his character and fits him for the
discharge of the nober duties of life.
| In the beginning Of the world, as are taught
| bv 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
thou shalt have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and 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, il was intended, by his wis
DOM that he, unto whom he had conhded 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
the history of animated nature, make himself mas
ter of a science which his own happiness de-
pended and which, when developed, could not fail
To advance the great causes 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 menagerles, 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 oheyed.
| 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 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
soveregns, have, at vast labor and expense estab-
ished institutes, made up Of the animal world, for
the purpose of aiding the propagation and advance
ment OF science and useful knowledge England,
France, Italy, Germany--in fact, all modern Eu-
rope have, for centuries back, paid unremittng at
tenton to this subject; and that nation Of Europe
which has not its national historical institute is re-
gsrded as on that backward course that leads, in the
end, to sem-barbaric ignorance and folly.
A superior brass band is attached to the establish
nrent.
May H-d