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

From angels and demons, the Rosacrusian would approach even to the Divinity; calculating the infinity by his geometry, he reveals the nature of the Divine Being, as “a pure monad, including in itself all numbers.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

Man began his course as a monad, but, by the force of Lamarck’s two principles, has reached the most elevated rank on the scale of animals.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

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