A first cause, we have already seen, must be a free cause.
The power of no true cause, of no free cause, is to be measured by what it does.
Our sensations do not proceed immediately from a free cause; the being that produces them, as well as that which experiences them, is subject to fixed and necessary laws.
Is the External and Immediate Cause of Sensations a Free Cause?
An occasion is any circumstance or combination of circumstances favourable to the action of a free cause.
It is spoken of only in connexion with the action of a free cause; and it differs from a cause in having no positive and direct influence on the production of the effect.
Man is a free agent, or free cause, of his deliberate actions.
God, in so far as he is considered as a free cause.
Will cannot be called a free cause, but only a necessary cause.
It follows, secondly, that God alone is a free cause; for God alone exists from the necessity alone of His own nature and acts from the necessity alone of His own nature.
The will cannot be called a free cause, but can only be termed necessary.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "free cause" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
