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

These little creatures belong to the monad family, but whether they are to be called Trachelomonads, or by some other hard name, the learned must decide.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.

Thus, the human being is successively a monad, an a-vertebrated animal, an osseous fish, a turtle, a bird, a ruminant, a mammal, and lastly an infant Man.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

In Leibniz's monadology, since each monad mirrored the whole universe, there was in each perspective a "sensibile" which was an appearance of each thing.

From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand