If these monads of mine are to have their day it's high time they began.
Our monads must have been mighty lively when we held hands at the Casino and at Martin's.
The tendency towards segregation into individual monads is gradual, and in the higher animals comes almost to the point.
In short, the mineral monad is one--the higher animal and humanmonads are countless.
He believed that by virtue of an inward energy monads develop themselves spontaneously, each being independent of every other.
To these monads he ascribed numberless qualities by which every phase of nature may be accounted.
For the soul, by its nature as a single monad indestructible and, therefore, immortal, death meant only the loss of the monads constituting the body and its return to the pre-existent state.
Out of these monads that radiate out from God, the primary monad, the world is formed into a harmony once for all admired of God: the theory of pre-established harmony.
According to Leibniz, the monads or ultimate elements of existence are constituted by the two essential properties of psychic life, perception and appetency.
It seems possible that by the monads Bruno sometimes means the infinitesimal parts into which the aether of space may conceivably be divided.
But Lotze discards the rigid monads of his master for the more intelligible soul-substances of Leibniz--or rather of Bruno--whose example he also follows in his attempt to combine pluralism with monism.
A more serious, and indeed absolutely insuperable, objection arises from the definition of the monads as nothing but mutually reflecting entities.
And lastly, all these great monads are comprehended in the first one, from which both they and all their depending series are unfolded into light.
Each of these monads too, is the leader of a series which extends from itself to the last of things, and which while it proceeds from, at the same time abides in, and returns to its leader.
The more modern and accurate researches of Ehrenberg and others, however, have shown, beyond all doubt, that these monads are true animals, the minutest of all living beings hitherto discovered.
And suchmonads are the only things ever produced directly by this blind deity.
These monads were the simplest of all organic beings, mere aggregations of matter, some of them supposed to be inherently vital.
And yet I believe that in "Kosmos"[15] I have conclusively proved that Monads must retain their vast elementary importance whether the Bathybius actually exists or not.
Nay more, the primordial organic cells could only have originated in the first instance from non-cellular plastides ormonads by their homogeneous plasson resolving itself into an internal nucleus and an external protoplasm.
He simply ignores the fact that true Monads actually exist, and have been positively identified by many different observers as structureless "organisms without organs," and he turns out the poor Bathybius with a kick.
Now the amoeboid state is a notable phenomenon throughout the monads as precursive of striking change.
Now this experimenter says that he took these monads and heated them to a temperature of about 140° F.
But he says these monads arose in a closed flask, the fluid of which had been heated up to 270° F.
One of the monads emitted from its sac minute mobile specks--evidently living bodies--which rapidly grew.
It is probable that there were numbers of monads which were unable to accommodate themselves to the changed conditions, and were therefore eliminated.
Here, then, these monads became gradually acclimatized to a temperature more than double that to which their ancestors had been accustomed to--a temperature which brought rapid death to their unmodified relatives.
The monads have a common resemblance in substance one with another; but in respect of qualities, of power, and size, they are substantially unlike.
In all spheres of life we see how the principal monad assembles all the subject monadsaround itself as organs and members.
The monads are in perpetual motion--perpetual change, and always place and arrange themselves according to their power and will.
So each of the ordinary monads is a world by itself, shut up within itself, with no windows from which it can look out upon the world, and really be affected by what is passing without it.
So far is Leibnitz from advocating universal identity, that he establishes an infinite plurality and multiplicity: his monads are beings really different and distinct among themselves.
Is the universe, as Leibnitz pretends, composed of a collection of monads endowed with a certain perception?
Leibnitz maintains that there are such substances; but, as we have seen, his system of monads must be regarded as merely hypothetical.
Now we are in the habit of considering these celestial bodies as bodies only; and as monads which have indeed regular arrangement, but are totally destitute of soul or vital principle.
The monads which constitute the body are the first and direct object of the soul; it perceives them more distinctly than it perceives, through them, the rest of the external world.
Leibnitz's two leading ideas, the theory of monads and the pre-established harmony, were most of all affected by this process of toning down.
Through the combination of both determinations we gain information concerning the kind of force or activity which constitutes the being of the monad: the monads are representative forces.
The supremacy of the soul-monad consists in this one superior quality, that it is more active and more perfect, and clearly reflects that which the body-monads represent but obscurely.
There is nothing truly real in the world save the monads and their representations [ideas, perceptions].
The objects of representation are merely representing subjects; the monad A represents the monads from B to Z, while these in turn do nothing more than represent one another.
For a group ofmonads appears as a body when it is indistinctly perceived.
But the phenomenon of extended mass arises for our confused sensuous perception, which perceives the monads composing a body together and regards them as a continuous unity.
Single monads are constantly passing into its body, or into its service, while others are passing out; it is involved in a continuous process of bodily transformation.
With Geulincx mind and body act on each other, but not by their own power; with Leibnitz the monads do not act on one another, but they act by their own power.
Upon her head twelve Monads form a crown; each has emanated another twelve.
In the middle of these Enneads and of these Monads is an immeasurable Deep towards which all the Universe looks, those that are internal as well as those that are external, having above it twelve Paternities, each surrounded by thirty Powers.
Again, he speaks of God as a pure immaterial actuality, actus purus, while to the monads belongs matter, i.
Secondly, atoms can be considered as extended and divisible, but the monads are metaphysical points, and actually indivisible.
The monads of Herbart may be just as well represented in the same space as a mathematical point may be conceived as accurately coexisting with another in the same place.
Since the monads do not work upon each other, but each one follows only the law of its own being, there is danger lest the inner harmony of the universe may be disturbed.
The monads of Leibnitz are similar to atoms in their general features.
In a higher rank are thosemonads in which the representation is active as a formative vital force, though still without consciousness.
The lower monads may be said to sleep, and the brute monads to dream.
Probably that lot has befallen me: my monad, meant for another region in space, has been dropped into this, where it can never be at home, never amalgamate with other monads nor comprehend why they are in such a perpetual fidget.
And yet, perhaps, in another planet my monad would have frisked and jumped and danced and seesawed with congenial monads, as contentedly and as sillily as do the monads of men and gnats in this alien Vale of Tears.
In so far as the monads are spiritual this doctrine tends to be subjectivistic.
With Spinoza the attributes belong to the same absolute substance, and with Leibniz the monads represent the one universe.
VII Monads I am not saying that this is the way a scientist--a mere scientist, one who has the fixed habit of not reading books through their backs--really feels.
Leibnitz, while sporting with his monads, amused himself with collecting together in Adam all the human monads with their little bodies of monads.
First, Do such unities or monads really and truly exist?
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