according as it is seen under different comparisons and relations.[225] Here then, sense is involved in an apparent contradiction, declaring the same object to be both hard and soft, great and small, light and heavy, &c. The mind, painfully confounded by such a contradiction, is obliged to invoke intellectual reflection to clear it up. Great and small are presented by the sense as inhering in the same object. Are they one thing, or two separate things? Intellectual reflection informs us that they are two: enabling us to conceive separately two things, which to our sense appeared confounded together. Intellectual (or abstract) conception is thus developed in our mind, as distinguished from sense, and as a refuge from the confusion and difficulties of sense, which furnish the stimulus whereby it is awakened.[226] [Footnote 221: Plato, Republic, vii. p. 521 C. [Greek: psuchê=s periagôgê/, e)k nukterinê=s tino\s ê(me/ras ei)s a)lêthinê\n tou= o)/ntos i)ou/sês e)pa/nodon, ê(\n dê\ philosophi/an a)lêthê= phê/somen ei)=nai.]] [Footnote 222: Plato, Republic, vii. p. 521 C. [Greek: Ti/ a)\n ou)=n ei)/ê ma/thêma psuchê=s o(lko\n a)po\ tou= gignome/nou e)pi\ to\ o)/n?]] [Footnote 223: Plato, Republic, vii. pp. 522-523 A.] [Footnote 224: Plato, Republic, vii. p. 523 C.] [Footnote 225: Plato, Republic, vii. pp. 523-524.] [Footnote 226: Plato, Republic, vii. p. 524 B-C.] [Side-note: Perplexity arising from the One and Many, stimulates the mind to an intellectual effort for clearing it up.]