" Why not? The term "monad" applies to the
latent life in the mineral as much as it does to the life in the
vegetable and the animal. The monogenist may take exception to the term
and especially to the idea while the polygenist, unless he be a
corporealist, may not. As to the other class of scientists, they would
take objection to the idea even of a human monad, and call it
"unscientific." What relation does the monad bear to the atom? None
whatever to the atom or molecule as in the scientific conception at
present. It can neither be compared with the microscopic organism
classed once among polygastric infusoria, and now regarded as vegetable
and ranked among algae; nor is it quite the monas of the Peripatetics.
Physically or constitutionally the mineral monad differs, of course,
from that of the human monad, which is neither physical, nor can its
constitution be rendered by chemical symbols and elements. In short,
the mineral monad is one--the higher animal and human monads are
countless. Otherwise, how could one account for and explain
mathematically the evolutionary and spiral progress of the four
kingdoms? The "monad" is the combination of the last two Principles in
man, the 6th and the 7th, and, properly speaking, the term "human monad"
applies only to the Spiritual Soul, not to its highest spiritual
vivifying Principle.
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