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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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For, if freedom were determined according to laws, it would be no longer freedom, but merely nature. It is plain that, if all causality in the world of sense were natural--and natural only--every event would be determined by another according to necessary laws, and that, consequently, phenomena, in so far as they determine the will, must necessitate every action as a natural effect from themselves; and thus all practical freedom would fall to the ground with the transcendental idea. - It merely presents us with the conception of spontaneity of action, as the proper ground for imputing freedom to the cause of a certain class of objects.
We must understand, on the contrary, by the term freedom, in the cosmological sense, a faculty of the spontaneous origination of a state; the causality of which, therefore, is not subordinated to another cause determining it in time. These unavoidable problems of mere pure reason are God, freedom (of will), and immortality. There is no such thing as freedom, but everything in the world happens solely according to the laws of nature. The question of transcendental freedom is purely speculative, and we may therefore set it entirely aside when we come to treat of practical reason.