The Chemistry of Cooking And Cleaning a Manual for House Keepers
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It will dry up the moisture, without which the tiny disease germs or other plants cannot grow; it will find and rout them by its chemical action. Its necessity and power in moral cleanness, who can measure? More plentiful than sunlight is air. We cannot shut it out entirely as we can light; but there is dirty air just as truly as dirty clothes and dirty water. The second requisite for cleanness, then, is pure air. Primitive conditions of human life required no thought of the air supply, for man... lived in the open ; but civilization brings the need of attention and care for details; improvements in some directions are balanced by disadvantages in others; luxuries crowd out necessities, and man pays the penalty for his disregard of Nature's laws. Sunlight, pure air and pure water are our common birthright, which we often bargain away for so-called com- forts. Pure Air. Primitive Conditions of Life. 84 THE CPIEMISTRY OF Sunlight is purity itself. Man cannot contam- inate it, but the air about him is what man makes it Naturally, air is the great "disinfectant, antiseptic and purifier, and not to be compared for a moment with any of artificial contrivance, " but under man's abuse it may become a death-dealing breath.
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