Sidis Archives
William James
Sidis, the
world-famous child prodigy thought to have been a "prodigious
failure," left great
discoveries
in books and articles written under pseudonyms. His general theory of the phenomena of the universe based on the theory of
probability, The Animate
and the Inanimate,
is online here. Many recent discoveries by the Hubble Space Telescope, and other NASA and EU satellites, are finding evidence
that suggest that his
theory may be correct. See Astrobiology
Today . His
100,000-year history of North America, The
Tribes and the States,
is as revolutionary as his cosmology. He knew the language of the
wampum (written Native-American history), and then later used
wampum belts as sources for the first part of this magnificent 620-page book, complete online
here. Many of his works
are still missing. His sister Helena, as well as Dr. Abraham
Sperling, an early biographer, reported seeing
a dozen manuscripts. You are invited to
search for the rest...
See also his father's archives:
William
James Sidis
The great
discoveries of William James
Sidis are coming to light.
"Boris
Sidis did not enjoy the full measure of recognition which he merited,
and which
it would seem certain will eventually be accorded to him."
Books by W.
J. Sidis
to read / save / print all of his works found to date―complete online
here.)
A General Theory of the
Phenomena of the Universe Based on the Theory of Probability
"Among the physical laws it is a general characteristic that there is reversibility in time; that is, should the whole universe trace back the various positions that bodies in it have passed through in a given interval of time, but in the reverse order to that in which these positions actually occurred, then the universe, in this imaginary case, would still obey the same laws."
He has shown clearly that the "Big-Bang" theory is wrong. The universe is infinite and eternal. It did not begin at some time, and will not end at some other time; it has no border at some place, and no other border at some other place.―Dan Mahony
100,000-Year History of North America
"The weaving of wampum belts was a sort of writing by means of belts of colored beads, in which the various designs of beads denoted different ideas according to a definitely accepted system, which could be read by anyone acquainted with wampum language, irrespective of what the spoken language was. Records and treaties were kept in this manner, and individuals could write letters to one another in this way."
A book
for young and old written by Sidis at 18. Focuses on "the feature without which no mountain is really complete―its history, or, at least its thrilling legend." Includes Penacook history, and poetry by John Greenleaf Whittier and Lucy Larcom.
The media industry, believing that Notes on the Collection of Transfers was his only book, proclaimed it evidence that Sidis was a great failure. But this book is taxonomy, Aristotelian in scope, of one of the most complex transportation systems of the time. He had collected the transfers while "riding his hobby" in a dozen US cities researching American history at the local level.
"The numbers of people injured and killed by motor vehicles are said to be at rates which approximate the losses of a major war." Includes a design for a Super-City. This is another taxonomy Aristotelian in scope.
Pamphlets
Plan, constitution, and rules of procedure for "...a new type of organization...a non-profit membership corporation...a federation of its employees."
"Unfortunately, too many Americans consider the search for liberty as at an end, as if it had been secured and made safe for all time by the founding fathers." Compilation of poetry by John Greenleaf, Whittier, Lucy Larcom, Thomas Paine, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stephen Foster, Lydia Sigourney, and Sidis himself.
Conscientious Objector Writings, 1939-1943
"absolutism, n. the acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters; absolutist n. & adj. (Oxford Dictionary)."
Books Not Yet Found
Re Atlantis manuscript
Lawyer's letter indicating publisher interest.
Re two more books
Dr. Sperling's letter mentions a book by Sidis on philology, another on anthropology. Elsewhere Sperling wrote: "What the journalists did not report, and perhaps did not know, was that during all the years of his obscure employments he was writing original treatises on history, government, economics and political affairs. In a visit to his mother's home I was permitted to see the contents of a trunkful of original manuscript material that Bill Sidis composed (Psychology for the Millions)."
The Peace Paths
"Several volumes, including two for the Boston area and one for the District of Columbia, are now ready to go to the printer."
Invention
Simplified Perpetual Calendar
Patent
Photo
Print Your
Own
"The invention relates to perpetual calendars in which week-days can be found directly for any given date whatever; and its object is, first, to provide a means by which all such week-days can be looked up in a direct, simple and easily understandable manner; secondly, to avoid the cross-reference tables or complex mechanism, one or the other of which have hitherto generally been features of perpetual calendars providing means to look up the week-day of any given date whatever."―U.S. Patent # 1,784,117
Articles
The
The Extent of Rights
Unconscious
Intelligence
Lessons
on Social Continuity
The Modern Gray Champion
A Remark on the Occurrence of
Revolutions
Notes correlation of sunspot cycles and political revolutions...
Jersey City
89 weekly columns
on interesting and little known facts
about American history and Boston
Translation
of Chekhov's
Translation
of Chekhov's
Translation
of "An Appeal to the
Workers of the Allies" by G. Chicherin
Grammar
o th'American Lingo
Hesperia Constitution
Periodicals
The
Peridromophile [Not yet found.][This publication for transfer collectors ran from September 1926 to October 1929.]
Geprodis
Organisation News
"...a new type of organization...a non-profit membership corporation...a federation of its employees."
Penacook
Courier
"Version of American history as though it were a current event."
Continuity
News
"A libertarian government is essentially a limited government limited by individual rights; the definition not only does not imply majority rule, but definitely implies that all rule, whether majority or minority, is strictly limited to the field of preventing transgressions on the rights of any individuals whatever."
"Get used to thinking in terms of Orarchy, not Democracy. 'Orarchy' means limited government―limited in powers and jurisdiction."
Letters, Documents, Misc.
Selected
Correspondence
Inventory of Materials
Preserved by Sagall Family
Biography
The Nation (1910)
"The idea that precocity—or at any rate precocity of any such character as
this—generally dies down into mediocrity has very little foundation."
"Where
are They Now?" The New Yorker (1937)
The
article that led to Sidis's lawsuit and the US Supreme Court precedent cited even
today in celebrity cases. Oddly, it is here the Okamakammessets appear in print for the first time.
US
Supreme Court Decision re Sidis vs. The
New Yorker (1941)
"The intimate
details of private life are not entitled to an absolute immunity from the prying
of the press, and a limited scrutiny may be had of the private life of any
person who has achieved, or has had thrust upon him, the questionable and
indefinable status of a 'public figure'."—
" 'Railroading' in
the Past" by W. J. Sidis (ca.1940)
His own account of
having been
"kidnapped
by his parents, by arrangement with the district attorney,"
as
a result of guilty verdict for participation in an anti-draft demonstration in
1919.
The Sidis Story by Sarah Sidis, M.D.
Buckminster Fuller letter re Sidis
(1976)
Did the Indians teach the Pilgrims Democracy? by Cathy Spence, Ipswich
Chronicle (1984)
The first
local newspaper article to tell the truth about Sidis.
In Search of the April Fool by Cathy
Spence,
Yankee (1987)
The first regional magazine article to tell the truth about Sidis.
Robert Pirsig on Sidis in
Lila
(1991)
"Phaedrus
hoped this Quality metaphysics was something that would get past the immune
system and show that American Indian mysticism is not something alien from
American culture. It's a deep submerged hidden root of it."
Bent Twig
in
The Mystifying Mind, Time Life Books (1991)
The Failure Myth by
Dan Mahony (1999)
The media's declaration of his 'prodigious failure' is clearly disproved by the
writings archived here.
As is the idea that there was anything at all 'wrong' with him.
Review of Amy Wallace's The Prodigy
supermemo.com re W. J. Sidis (2003)
Notes on the Collection of Sidis's
Pseudonyms
See also:
quantonics.com
for additional Sidis
material and comment.
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children of Earth's
future, given efforts of a few on his
behalf now (Doug Renselle)."
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Native American History
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Biography
Library of Congress Online Catalog
Gifted Children
Terman Study of Gifted Children
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Contributors to Sidis Project (1976-1999) Dan Mahony (Site Admin.), Sara Zarem, Ella Maezel, Helena Sidis, Martin Dworkin, Maria Taranto, Grace Spinelli, Jim Bernstein, Issac 'Rab' Rabinowitz, Anne H. Feinzig, Robin Lagemann, Slow Turtle, Wampanoag Cultural Center, Tom Reilly, Doc Humes, Larry Nobile, Robert Bearce, Andrew Bearce, Eliot Sagall, Tom Mahony, Diana Segara, Devin Mahony, Amy Wallace
Contributors to sidis.net (1999-present) Doug Renselle, Martha Brassil, Frankie Dintino, Jason Stanfield, Nick Duvoisin, Max Patten, Michael Sechrist, Joshua Freeman, Bob Luhrs, Nicole Copernicus, N. Lygeros, Mike Perry, Bill Paton, Bobbi Jordan, Lane Branscombe, Ryan Messner, Alvie Singer, Terry 25odd6, Valerie Orloff, Patrice Deloche, Robbie Dawson, Georgia Triantafyllidi, Johan Källvide, Leon Hansen, Robert Underwood, Peter Vandermark, Jay Dillon...
In Memoriam:
Helena Sidis
Robin Lagemann
Update
d August 2004Graphic
at top by Leon Hansen
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