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.