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

Like Aristotle, Leibniz attributes reality to individual substances, which he calls "monads"; and like Aristotle he conceives these monads to compose an ascending order, with God, the monad of monads, as its dominating goal.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

For if the intelligent dog or elephant have existence in the future, so may the fish, the mollusk, the monad, and even the speck of protoplasm, which loses itself in unorganic matter.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

Were God a bare monad, He could not impart Himself and remain Himself.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)