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

The monad, or unit, was not only the point whence all extension proceeds, but it further symbolised the First Principle, the origin of all.

From Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

This something, formerly called a monad, is imperceptible.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

Thus, the human being is successively a monad, an a-vertebrated animal, an osseous fish, a turtle, a bird, a ruminant, a mammal, and lastly an infant Man.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by