id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 35839 Bledsoe, Albert Taylor An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will .txt text/plain 68402 2776 66 soul of man as the efficient cause of its volitions, and motive as regard motive as the efficient, or producing cause of volition, but only Edwards truly says, he includes "_every cause_ or occasion of volition;" Inquiry says, that motive is the cause of volition, he means that it is own volitions, it must cause them by a preceding act of the mind. motive is made to embrace every thing that acts as a cause of volition. absurd to assert that the mind may be caused to act, or that a volition produced or caused by the action or influence of any thing. which a volition is caused to exist in the soul of man, by the action or volition of the mind, as a producing cause is connected with its effect. mind cannot be caused to act, if it is absurd to speak of a produced ./cache/35839.txt ./txt/35839.txt