Full Idea
Can you really maintain that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each one of these has ideas, however obscure, of the entire universe?
Gist of Idea
Is a drop of urine really an infinity of thinking monads?
Source
comment on Gottfried Leibniz (Monadology [1716]) by Francois-Marie Voltaire - works Vol 22:434
Book Reference
Stewart,Matthew: 'The Courtier and the Heretic' [Yale 2007], p.308
A Reaction
Monads are a bit like Christian theology - if you meet them cold they seem totally ridiculous, but if you meet them after ten years of careful preliminary study they make (apparently) complete sense. Defenders of panpsychism presumably like them.