Editing Synergy (section)

==Synergy in literature==
Etymologically, the "synergy" term was first used around 1600, deriving from the Greek word "synergos", which means "to work together" or "to cooperate". If during this period the synergy concept was mainly used in the theological field (describing "the cooperation of human effort with divine will"), in the 19th and 20th centuries, "synergy" was promoted in physics and biochemistry, being implemented in the study of the open economic systems only in the 1960 and 1970s.<ref name = "Laura-Melinda_2011" />{{rp|5}}

In 1938, [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] wrote an essay titled ''On Fairy Stores'', delivered at an Andrew Lang Lecture, and reprinted in his book, ''The Tolkien Reader'', published in 1966. In it, he made two references to synergy, although he did not use that term. He wrote:

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Faerie cannot be caught in a net of words; for it is one of its qualities to be indescribable, though not imperceptible. It has many ingredients, but analysis will not necessarily discover the secret of the whole.
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And more succinctly, in a footnote, about the "part of producing the web of an intricate story", he wrote:

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It is indeed easier to unravel a single ''thread'' &mdash; an incident, a name, a motive &mdash; than to trace the history of any ''picture'' defined by many threads. For with the picture in the tapestry a new element has come in: the picture is greater than, and not explained by, the sum of the component threads.
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