Waiving certain discrepancies which appear in a comparative examination of Dexter’s various articles it appears that school misdemeanors, assaults, suicides and drunkenness are increased on clear and dry days. The increase in the assaults and drunkenness may be due to the fact that people go out more on clear than on wet days, hence have more opportunities for getting into brawls--though one might argue that on dark, foggy days they would be driven into the saloons, thereby increasing the offenses. On dry days perspiration is increased and therefore there is more demand for liquid refreshment. But, what is more important, there is also very probably some stimulating or irritating quality in clear, dry, sunshiny weather. Dexter assumes this, though he does not ascribe the stimulating quality to the dryness but to the increased electrical potential of dry air. Pupils are stimulated on clear, dry, sunny days, hence they are more active, aggressive and enterprising, but likewise more restless, high strung, emotionally unstable and therefore also more mischievous. A superabundance of energy and not a state of enervation predisposes to childish pranks and nervous explosions. An increase of vitality and nervous tension upsets the unstable equilibrium of the predisposed offender, gives him a false sense of strength, and an exaggerated idea of self-importance (often paranoia-like in its intensity), and hence he becomes more aggressively criminalistic. Moreover, the exhilarating qualities of tonic days give the potential suicide just the courage he needs to take his own life, the courage which he may be unable to muster during states of depleted vitality. Devitalized states of the body breed fear, diffidence and cowardice. On the other hand, the humid and hot days are devitalizing (because of low electrical potential, according to Dexter) and therefore lead to inaction. Depleted vitality and nervous exhaustion are inhibitory of action, hence during devitalizing weather states misdemeanors decrease in number.