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

Whence this process, inconceivable however symbolised, by which alike the monad and the man build themselves up into their respective structures?

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

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

This seems to be the case, for we find that the spectra of Sodium, Potassium, Lithium, Hydrogen, Chlorine, which are all monad elements, consist of comparatively few lines.”

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George