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the six principal schools of philosophers who dispute concerning pipes are as follows:—
 * (1) The Chorizontic or Separatists.
 * (2) The Solidic.
 * (3) The Medioliquorean.
 * (4) The Megacremasuotic.
 * (5) The Cœlosphaeric or Cyclosematic.
 * (6) The Orthopoetic.

And, to take them in the above order, the Chorizontics maintain the following thesis—that if a pipe be simple, considered apart from its mouthpiece, it is also simple with it—that is to say, the mouthpiece should not be held to affect in any way the dichotomy into simple and complex, the two essential parts which are to be considered being the bowl and stem, in support of which the learned Boëterbroddius argues thus:—"If I make