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

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

The Pythagoreans having spoken of the point as a monad naturally were led to speak of the line as dyadic, or related to two.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

It believes in a God who may be termed the supreme monad, i.e. the head of a system of monads; but whose power may be said, in certain respects, to be limited.

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