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reproduce the total results summated for the months, separately,
and I have worked out the daily average for each month, for
convenience counting the summated eight years as one year:--
Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
27 27 27 31 29 28 36 25 18 27 30 24
.87 .94 .87 1.03 .93 .93 1.16 .81 .60 .87 1.00 .77
Here, as in all the other curves we have been able to consider,
we may see the usual two points of climax in spring and in
autumn; the major climax covers April, May, June, and July, the
minor autumnal climax is confined to November. In the light of
the evidence which has thus accumulated, we may conclude that the
existence of an annual ecbolic curve, with its spring and autumn
climaxes, as described in the first edition of this book, is now
definitely established.
If we are to believe, as these records tend to show, that the nocturnal
and involuntary voice of the sexual impulse usually speaks at least as
loudly in autumn as in spring, we are confronted by a certain divergence
of the sleeping sexual impulse from the waking sexual instinct, as
witnessed by the conception-curve, and also, it may be added, by the
general voice of tradition, and, indeed, of individual feeling, which
concur, on the whole, in placing the chief epoch of sexual activity in
spring and early summer, more especially as regards women.
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