monad
Example Sentences
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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
It will be necessary now to describe briefly the various laws which have governed this evolutionary chain from the monad to man.
From Was Man Created? by Mott, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)
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)
