heat-givers

Updated: August 7, 2026

We should dwell on the part played in the Universe by the properties of oxygen, the great purifier, and one of the great heat-givers; of carbon, the chief light-giver and heat-giver; of water, the great solvent and the storehouse of heat; of the atmosphere and the vapours in it, the protector of the earth which it surrounds.

Frederick Temple - The Relations Between Religion and Science: Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1884