Reverend Cupid and the Love Question Revisited
A writer surveys scientific and cultural claims about love from Mrs. Dave Hennen Morris to medical journals and German scientists. The piece argues for a sober, historical look at "love sickness" beyond poetic tropes and popular theories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Hennen Morris
Young Women’s Christian Association
Medical Journal
Dave Hennen
Morris
Love as a medicine for love and the fate of humanity
The piece surveys opinions from German and Italian scholars on love as a natural instinct and a disease. It cites Lehmann Barrett Lucka Mehlis Nolken and Hardtmann, tracing love from primal unicellular origins to modern society and predicting rising bachelor rates amid civilization.
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Lehmann
Barrett
Emil Lucka
Mehblis
Nolken
F. Barrett
Ovid
Amoris
Germany
Austria
Poe
Lucka
Georg Melilis
Logos
Mehlis
Dr. Nolken
Edward von Hardtmann
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Plato
Empedocles
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