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

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)

The lowest monad has a mouth and means for propagating its kind, which do not belong to the primitive ovum of any higher animal.

From A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' by Bowen, Francis

Haeckel and Huxley followed life through all its changing forms from monad up to man.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green