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)

Pythagoras held that the unit or monad is the principle and end of all.

From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by Cutten, George Barton

Whatever may be the ultimate force which actuates this monad, the manifestations of its presence and the result of its energy are seen externally.

From The Speech of Monkeys by Garner, Richard Lynch