Glimpses of the Cosmos, volume VI (1897–1912) G. This is social synergy, which is a form of cosmic synergy, the universal constructive principle of nature. ![]() What is not seen-the truth that has no expounders-is that the wholesome, constructive movement consists in the properly ordered combination and interaction of both these principles. The one leads to disorder, the other to degeneracy. Struggle is essentially destructive of the social order, while communism removes individual initiative. Either alone is productive of evil consequences. I have characterized the social struggle as centrifugal and social solidarity as centripetal. In 1909, Lester Frank Ward defined synergy as the universal constructive principle of nature: The highest civilizations were the work not only of the elite but of the masses too those masses must be led, however, because the crowd, a feminine and unconscious force, cannot distinguish between good and evil. In 1896, Henri Mazel applied the term "synergy" to social psychology by writing La synergie sociale, in which he argued that Darwinian theory failed to account of "social synergy" or "social love", a collective evolutionary drive. Dunglison, Robley Medical Lexicon Blanchard and Lea, 1853 A correlation or concourse of action between different organs in health and, according to some, in disease. SYN'ERGY, Synergi'a, Synenergi'a, (F.) Synergie from συν, 'with', and εργον, 'work'. The words synergy and synergetic have been used in the field of physiology since at least the middle of the 19th century: In Christian theology, synergism is the idea that salvation involves some form of cooperation between divine grace and human freedom.
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