monad

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Each monad has its own destiny, and it acts and moves entirely of its own accord.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 29, 2016

There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whatever may be the ultimate force which actuates this monad, the manifestations of its presence and the result of its energy are seen externally.

From The Speech of Monkeys by Garner, Richard Lynch

Haeckel and Huxley followed life through all its changing forms from monad up to man.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green

The lowest monad has a mouth and means for propagating its kind, which do not belong to the primitive ovum of any higher animal.

From A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' by Bowen, Francis