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

And he declared that the "monad," to be rightly understood, must be regarded as analogous to our own souls.

From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by Hardwick, John Charlton

Whence this process, inconceivable however symbolised, by which alike the monad and the man build themselves up into their respective structures?

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

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