"I will both lay me down in peace and sleep: for thou, Lord, only, makest me dwell in safety."—Psalm iv.

60. What proportion of carbonic acid gas is dangerous to life?

Any proportion over the natural one of 1 per cent. may be regarded as injurious. But toxicologists state that five per cent. of carbonic acid gas in the atmosphere is dangerous to life.

61. What are toxicologists?

Persons who study the nature and effects of poisons and their antidotes.

62. Which kind of combustible used for lighting tends most to vitiate the air?

Assuming all the lights to be of the same intensity, the degree in which the substances burnt would vitiate the atmosphere may be gathered from the number of minutes each would take to exhaust a given quantity of air. This has been found to be: rape oil, 71 minutes; olive oil, 72; Russian tallow, 75; town tallow, 76; sperm oil, 76; stearic acid, 77; wax candles, 79; spermaceti candles, 83; common coal gas, 98; canal coal gas, 152. Thus it is shown that rape oil is most destructive of the atmosphere, and that coal gas is the least destructive.