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 me a bowl of wood, fitting to it a stem, also of wood, it is plain that such pipe is simple. Next, if I procure a lid of silver and affix it to the bowl, the pipe still remains simple (since the possession of a lid is an accident of a pipe). Finally then if I get a mouthpiece of amber and fit it to the stem, since a mouthpiece as well as a lid is an accident and not a property or differentia, that pipe will continue simple, and should be considered as such."—Boëterbroddius. De Re Fumariâ b. viii., p. 987. And the Chorizontic definition of a complex is this:—"A complex pipe is such that it cannot become simple without ceasing to be a pipe."

But, on the other hand, the no less learned Dreckenhauserius, chief of the opposite School of Solidics, expresses his judgment as follows:—"A complex pipe is one in which the matter is not homogeneous. So that if any pipe contain or be composed of more than one kind of matter, that pipe is complex. But a wooden pipe with an amber mouthpiece