"What's the science behind that?" he says as the instructor kindles a flame by rubbing wire wool against a battery.
"The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States," he assured readers in Federalist No. 10.
But also to awaken; to kindle a flame that you hope will never go out; to guide your pupils towards insights, ideas and revelations that they would never have arrived at without your dedication, patience and skill.
Afterwards, I can say that Haiti reaches into your heart and kindles a flame that burns bright.
We kindle a flame to commemorate a miracle, we gaze at its light, and we are forbidden to use that light for any other purpose.
Passion kindled, a flame that continues to burn bright, even in the moments when I find myself in a snowy tangle.
"I saw a likelihood of kindling an inextinguishable flame if I should admit any public and open contests," Phips explained.
He wrote to the Privy Council that he had therefore "put a stop to the Print[ing] of any discourse one way or the other that may increase the needlesse disputes of people upon this occasion because I saw a likelihood of Kindling an inextinguishable flame".
The Paris climate agreement kindled "a huge flame of hope", establishing a new model of 21st-century diplomacy, the woman behind the deal has declared.
Even the birth of her child does not kindle a human flame in her heart, but when her husband frames up a kidnapping and she feels what it is to be without her baby, the Spark Divine begins to glow.
Their long reign in the Nineties kindled an unquenchable flame in subsequent generations of young northern men: the desire to make epic, emotional guitar rock.
