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)
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
It will be necessary now to describe briefly the various laws which have governed this evolutionary chain from the monad to man.
From Was Man Created? by Mott, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)
