[clxiv. 158]

1820 June 18

Emancipation Spanish

? Corruptive influence

Till the deceptions practiced by this power over mental[?] associations is thoroughly seen through, no reform in politics or morals or in religion can have place

Of the power of denomination and thereby of classification - of the influence of this indirect but not less efficacious mode /form/ of legislation on the effect of that direct mode which alone has hitherto borne the name notice and explanation has /was/ /may be seen/ for the first time been given in Bentham by Dumont. Not only when clothed in power but when bare of all power the effect of it is prodigious. upon all points it exerts /exercises/ on the power of the popular or moral sanction which when applied to words employed by law it exercises on the power of the political sanction on the power of those laws in and by which the forms of direct imperation are assumed and acted on.

In this case what is the intermediate force /mental instrument/ by which it acts? It is the power of producing associations in the mind. Words by being the signs become the causes of ideas: by being the causes of ideas they become the causes of opinions: by being the causes of opinions they become the causes of acts.