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

Man began his course as a monad, but, by the force of Lamarck’s two principles, has reached the most elevated rank on the scale of animals.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

Goethe disliked that glance of theirs that seems to attempt to incorporate man’s soul within itself, and he drove away dogs, saying, “You shall not swallow my monad, much as you may try.”

From My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 by Gautier, Théophile

In the last chapter a description was given of the various stages in man's development, from the microscopic monad up.

From Was Man Created? by Mott, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)