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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.
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Now, is it absolutely necessary that, granting that all effects are phenomena, the causality of the cause of these effects must also be a phenomenon and belong to the empirical world? For the latter presupposes that although a certain thing has not happened, it ought to have happened, and that, consequently, its phenomenal cause was not so powerful and determinative as to exclude the causality of our will--a causality capable of producing effects independently of and even in opposition to the power of natural causes, and capable, consequently, of spontaneously originating a series of events. You can do it too! The conceptions of the understanding make us acquainted, among many other kinds of unity, with that of the causality of a substance, which is termed power. All change is therefore possible only through a continuous action of the causality, which, in so far as it is uniform, we call a momentum. The causality, therefore, of a cause, whereby something happens, is itself a thing that has happened. It is based upon the spurious transcendental law of causality, that everything which is contingent has a cause, which, if itself contingent, must also have a cause; and so on, till the series of subordinated causes must end with an absolutely necessary cause, without which it would not possess completeness.] Let it be supposed, that there is no other kind of causality than that according to the laws of nature.