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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 4 (July 1, 1939)

The Low-down on Love

The Low-down on Love.

But now Science says “Nerts!”—in Latin—and insists that love is a mild manifestation of suicidal insanity induced by low brain-power and high blood pressure. Science holds out hope for the love-horn and denies that love is necessarily fatal. If caught before consciousness has completely vanished, the afflicted may completely recover his freedom.

Science prescribes a poultice placed over the liver—or a brick dropped on the head. It gives it as its opinion that love is no more spiritual than petrified brains or ingrown knee-caps and arises either from too much imagination or too little.

These facts cause us to wonder how grandma and grandpop survived the exigencies of muddled matrimony based
“Love transformed Us.”

“Love transformed Us.”

on blind instinct and biological ignorance. Someone should have warned them on their golden wedding of the risk they ran of an unsuccessful union by heeding the insipid simperings of Sentiment.