By Richard C Dales
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Nor have modern physical and social science and modern politics been without their own unique "fringes": concepts of ethnic or racial superiority and inferiority, national destiny, the relation of the state to the individual. Such "fringes," of course, have not always been as clearly visible to those influenced by them as have the "fringes" of early European science, but they have played no less complete roles because of their relative invisibility, no less destructive or creative roles. Although the history of science and scientific conceptualization from the twelfth to the twentieth century often may seem a spectacular instance of the overcoming of those fringes it may be useful to remind ourselves that this history itself took the shape it did, at the outset, precisely because of the values of the culture out of which it grew.
I would guess that whoever first undertook this task learned something about it from sense experience. Probably, someone who had formerly had a very active imagination suffered an injury to the front of his head and afterwards no longer possessed the imaginative THE TWELFTH CENTURY 45 faculty, although his reason and memory remained unaffected. And when this happened it was noticed by the philosopher. And similarly injuries to other parts of the head impeded other functions of the mind, so that it could be established with certainty which areas of the brain controlled which mental functions, especially since in some men these areas are marked by very fine lines.
He never found the time to translate the major philosophical works of Aristotle or Plato or to write his synthesis of their teaching. His philosophical ideas, both Platonic and Aristotelian, are best expressed in his treatise The Consolation of Philosophy, a beautifully written work of mature philosophical reflection composed while he was in prison awaiting execution. From Boethius's textbooks, the Middle Ages received their knowledge of some of the best ancient ideas on the mathematical structure of the universe, of mathematical proportions, of music theory and its relation to the harmony of the cosmos, of the types and limits of human knowledge, and of the classification of the sciences.