21.] [Footnote 2: _Rev._ xxi.

1, 2, 5.] That there may have been a contradiction between the belief in the approaching end of the world and the general moral system of Jesus, conceived in prospect of a permanent state of humanity, nearly analogous to that which now exists, no one will attempt to deny.[1] It was exactly this contradiction that insured the success of his work.
The millenarian alone would have done nothing lasting; the moralist alone would have done nothing powerful.

The millenarianism gave the impulse, the moralist insured the future.

Hence Christianity united the two conditions of great success in this world, a revolutionary starting-point, and the possibility of continuous life.

Everything which is intended to succeed ought to respond to these two wants; for the world seeks both to change and to last.