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

Trivalent, trī′vā-lent, or triv′-, adj. equivalent in combining or displacing power to three monad atoms.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

The individual is thus a monad which is inwardly aware of its actuality—a genius which beholds itself.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

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