Article #184 - Natural History

            How is knowledge of natural history useful?

...There is perhaps no situation in which the lover of nature and the observer of animals life may

not find opportunities for cultivating his taste increasing his store of knowledge the pursuit of which will be found not only to supply inexhaustible sources of intellectual gratification, but also to furnish, to contemplative minds, a rich fountain of practical & religious instruction by adducing those evidences of the power wisdom & goodness of God which are manifested in

the living creation...A thorough knowedge of natural history must of necessity be of vital importance to the human race.

                                    E. P. Barnard