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

In the last chapter a description was given of the various stages in man's development, from the microscopic monad up.

From Was Man Created? by Mott, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)

Yet hoped we on; every monad has his day....

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

It believes in a God who may be termed the supreme monad, i.e. the head of a system of monads; but whose power may be said, in certain respects, to be limited.

From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by Hardwick, John Charlton