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

Whatever may be the ultimate force which actuates this monad, the manifestations of its presence and the result of its energy are seen externally.

From The Speech of Monkeys by Garner, Richard Lynch

From angels and demons, the Rosacrusian would approach even to the Divinity; calculating the infinity by his geometry, he reveals the nature of the Divine Being, as “a pure monad, including in itself all numbers.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

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)