And why are things so bad here?
Why, precisely for this very reason, because you good people fancy yourselves such powerful monads, and think so much of your own strength, without being willing to know that you are altogether poor sinners, who ought to beseech our Lord God to govern their poor nomadic souls, in order that they might become a little better.

It is precisely such nomadic notions as these that we have to thank for all kind of rapscallion pranks, for all uproars and broken windows.

If you had only less of nomads, and more of sensible men in you, one should live in better peace on the earth." The Candidate was quite confounded; he had never been used to argument like this, and stared at Mrs.Gunilla with open mouth; whilst little Pyrrhus, excited by the warmth of his mistress, leapt upon the table, and barking shrilly seemed disposed to spring at the Candidate's nose.
All this appeared so comic, that Elise could no longer keep back the merriment which she had felt during the former part of the dispute, and Jacobi himself accompanied her hearty laugh.

Mrs.Gunilla, however, looked very bitter; and the Candidate, nothing daunted, began again.
"But, in the name of all the world," said he, "your Honour will not understand me: we speak only of a mode of observing the world--a mode by which its phenomena can be clearly expounded.

Monadology, rightly understood, does not oppose the ideas of the Christian religion, as I will demonstrate immediately.