original, separate achievements, like the metaphysical idealism of Edwards and Bishop Berkeley on which there has been so much comment. Edwards plainly admits, even contends, that whether a man is determined in his choice by some prior cause or by no cause at all does not enter into the definition or the experience of freedom. If a person is able to do what he wills or chooses, he is free, no matter how he came to make this choice. In his “Remarks on the Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural
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