One was a tattered monad, called a poet; And with shrill voice ecstatic thus he sang: "Oh, the little female monad's lips!

One was a tattered monad, called a poet; And with shrill voice ecstatic thus he sang: "Oh, the little female monad's lips!

Prior to these, however, she sees those divine monads, from which all intellectual multitudes receive their unions.

The dominant monad is distinguished from those which surround it as its body by the greater distinctness of its ideas.

THE ONE AND THE ALL (1821) Called to a new employ in boundless space, The lonely monad quits its 'customed place And from life's weary round contented flees.

The mathematical monad is eternal.

One was a meditative monad, called a sage; And, shrinking all his mind within, he thought: "Tradition, handed down for hours and hours, Tells that our globe, this quivering crystal world, Is slowly dying.

One was a barren-minded monad, called A positivist; and he knew positively: "There is no world beyond this certain drop. Prove me another!

Physical points, the atoms, are physical, but not points; mathematical points are indivisible, but not real; metaphysical or substantial points, the incorporeal, soul-like units, alone combine in themselves indivisibility and realitythe monads are the true atoms.

I do not know whether there be nothingness, or existence without space and time; perhaps some midplanetary wind carries the spiritual monad from star to star to implant it in an ever-renewing existence.

If there are no soulless bodies, there are also no bodiless souls; the soul is always joined with an aggregate of subordinate monads, though not always with the same ones.

One was a tattered monad, called a poet; And with shrill voice ecstatic thus he sang: "Oh, the little female monad's lips!

It appears least in contradiction with the other principles of the philosopher to assign the rôle of this vinculum substantiate to the soul or central monad itself.

One was a transcendental monad; thin And long and slim in the mind; and thus he mused: "Oh, vast, unfathomable monad-Souls!

But from the Timaeus you may obtain the theory about intelligibles, a divine narration about the demiurgic monad, and the most full truth about the mundane gods.