But the point here is that the normal human mind not only objects to both, but feels to both the same objection.

Its approximate statement is that if the man in Hanwell is the real God, he is not much of a god.

And, similarly, if the cosmos of the materialist is the real cosmos, it is not much of a cosmos.

The thing has shrunk.

The deity is less divine than many men; and (according to Haeckel) the whole of life is something much more grey, narrow, and trivial than many separate aspects of it.