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 individual is thus a monad which is inwardly aware of its actuality—a genius which beholds itself.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
This seems to be the case, for we find that the spectra of Sodium, Potassium, Lithium, Hydrogen, Chlorine, which are all monad elements, consist of comparatively few lines.”
From Aether and Gravitation by William George Hooper
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 Robert Green Ingersoll
