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
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 John Charlton Hardwick
The lowest monad has a mouth and means for propagating its kind, which do not belong to the primitive ovum of any higher animal.
From A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' by Francis Bowen
Influenced by Kant's theory of knowledge as well as by the Fichte-Schelling-Hegel idealism and Herbart's realism, with an infusion of Leibnitz's monad doctrine, Hermann Lotze of Göttingen has, since a.d.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
