World, Species, Practice

The universe may be a creation of Leibniz' deity, but at least some of the universe of which a Monad is a mirror is not.  Rather, except in some very rare cases, at least some of the objects of a Monad's perception are products of human endeavor, maybe even that of specifically that Monad.  So, a more accurate use of 'mirror' to characterize human experience is--the World is a mirror of the Practice of the Species.  By contrast, Leibniz' formulation seems like a glorification of the passivity of the individual Monad, rather than that of the creativity of his deity, and rather than that of the creativity of both individual and deity in Spinoza's system.