Fire and Its Causes
THE first recorded act of the Creator of the universe after He had created the heavens and the earth had to do with fire—“And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.” (Genesis 1:3). Since the dawn of creation fire has therefore held the centre of interest for the world’s greatest scientists and philosophers, and many theories have been advanced to account for all the remarkable phenomona which accompany it.
So far as modern scientific research has been able to go, however, fire, or combustion, has been shown to be the result of violent chemical alterations in bodies of various kinds. The heat thus evolved is merely incidental phenomenon, or, in other words, the vehement combination of various elements; smoke is the product of imperfect combustion, due either to want of oxygen or want of temperature; and flame may be defined as aeriform or gaseous matter heated to such a degree as to be luminous.
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