Today, we celebrate the fact that this historic document has survived a turbulent five decades, which have seen some of the most extraordinary developments in the evolution of human society. These include the collapse of the colonial system, the passing of a bipolar world, breath taking advances in science and technology and the entrenchment of the complex process of globalisation.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

We humans coevolve with our tools. We change our tools, and then our tools change us.

We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.