Full Idea
Because we must establish the necessity of a first beginning to make comprehensible an origin of the world, we are permitted to allow that in the course of the world different series may begin on their own as far as their causality is concerned.
Gist of Idea
If there is a first beginning, there can be other sequences initiated from nothing
Source
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B478/A450)
Book Reference
Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.486
A Reaction
This reinforces my firmly held view, that human free will is a bogus concept, which was invented in order place God above nature, and then ascribed to human beings because no other explanation of moral responsibility could be found.