efficient cause

Thus she was the efficient cause, as Nelson claimed, that many thousands of Austrians escaped capture.

It is vain to seek for an efficient cause for the bad will; we have to do, not with anything efficient, but with a deficiency.

The natural world exists and subsists from the spiritual world, just as the effect exists from the efficient cause.

The reason was now obvious, the capital flaw was detected, the sickness of the body politic traced at last to its efficient cause.

If the further question be asked, What was the efficient cause of their evil will?