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

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

And he declared that the "monad," to be rightly understood, must be regarded as analogous to our own souls.

From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by Hardwick, John Charlton