Thus two lines of thought combine in the concept of the monad.

The microscope observes a monad or wheel-insect among the infusories circulating in water.

It is the lowest point of the are in the monad's downward journey.

Stahl has especially illustrated in physiology this idea of an independent soul monad.

A monad in my fingernail feels the gravity of Titan, does it not?

In short, the mineral monad is one-thehigher animal and human monads are countless.

That from the monad and the indefinite duad proceed numbers.

If you dislike pluralism, there will be only one monad.

Yet, such a bulk, when compared to the universe, is less than a monad.

The monad mirrors mirrors-whereis the thing that is mirrored?

Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature.

Is the Pythagorean image of the harmony, or that of the monad, the truer expression?

And this is where the idea comes from, that a monad is a little soul.

I am only a monad- athingof no moment.

But Bergson's attitude towards the existence of a substantial soul-monad is consistently and inevitably hostile.

What relation does the monad bear to the atom?