In his Inquiry into the original of our ideas of Beauty and Virtue , the Irish Presbyterian moral philosopher Francis Hutcheson suggested an equation for calculating love:
“The Quantity of Love toward any person is in a compound Proportion of the apprenhended Causes of Love in him, and of the Goodness of Temper in the observer. Or L = C X G.”
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