The Secular Library is dedicated to the establishment of Science, the exercise of Reason, the pursuit of Truth, the understanding of Reality, and the better evolution of Mankind, through the prudent justification of Knowledge Classification.

In early 2001, I noticed that social disorderliness was not receding as I had thought it would in my childhood (circa 1971).  I pledged to myself that I would find the root of the problem and develop the solution.  It was not until early 2007 that I recognized that the problem was the inadequate qualities of the library classification systems. 

further description of the generation of the research is at my personal page  


The Secular Library is the designation of the corporate guardianship of the classification system that is derived from the collation formula that I was able to articulate from my heuristic calculations of the semantic hierarchy of the general subjects of knowledge.

Ronald Martin
Founder, artificer, adventurer, revolutionary

Introduction to Knowledge Classification

Dictionaries and encyclopedias organize words (and subjects of knowledge) in alphabetical order, but the alphabetical order does not present the categories of subjects in a manner that helps the student comprehend the relation of the subjects. Library classification systems seemingly present such a map, but ultimately fail, otherwise we would refer to the hierarchy listing in arguments of reason, just as we sometimes refer to dictionary definitions to formulate premises.

Internet search engines provide random access to subjects that seemingly render library classification less necessary than before, but that does not nullify the need for a reliable classification systemThe social problems that the modern American society is enduring is because of the lack of a reliable knowledge classification system.

Comparison of the library classification systems' general categories

Melvil Dewey 

The Dewey Decimal System seems to organize the main categories of knowledge along the lines of the traditional school curriculum and is ordered in a base-ten (decimal) format.  The two systems do not coordinate.  The main categories are not distributed equally into ten parts; and nobody knows how the descending categories are determined, because it is not "logical," as the advocates for the system claim it to be.

Dewey Decimal General Categories

000 – Computer science, information, and general works

100 – Philosophy and psychology

200 – Religion

300 – Social sciences

400 – Language

500 – Science

600 – Technology

700 – Arts and recreation

800 – Literature

900 – History and geography

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress classification system supposedly organizes the subjects of knowledge to assist the members of the federal government.  The LCC was generated soon after the Dewey system and was designed to improve upon the DDC by exploring a wider range of general categories.  It also appears that it deploys the "past, present, and future" trinity from Thomas Jefferson's classification system.

Library of Congress General Categories

A -- GENERAL WORKS

B -- PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGY. RELIGION

C -- AUXILIARY SCIENCES OF HISTORY

D -- WORLD HISTORY AND HISTORY OF EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, ETC.

E -- HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS

F -- HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS

G -- GEOGRAPHY. ANTHROPOLOGY. RECREATION

H -- SOCIAL SCIENCES

J -- POLITICAL SCIENCE

K -- LAW

L -- EDUCATION

M -- MUSIC AND BOOKS ON MUSIC

N -- FINE ARTS

P -- LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Q -- SCIENCE

R -- MEDICINE

S -- AGRICULTURE

T -- TECHNOLOGY

U -- MILITARY SCIENCE

V -- NAVAL SCIENCE

Z -- BIBLIOGRAPHY. LIBRARY SCIENCE. INFORMATION RESOURCES (GENERAL)

Secular Library

The Secular Library Classification system organizes the categories into seven realms of knowledge.  The realms list is simple, easy to remember, and provides the student with a firm sense of what exists in reality and is documented.  The subsequent listing of subjects follow the base-seven listing of six semantic cues (collation), until the primary collation for the subjects are encountered.


Secular Library Realms of Knowledge

0.  Reality