It does not make him look up and see marvels; for Alice must grow small if she is to be Alice in Wonderland.

Thus it loses both the poetry of being proud and the poetry of being humble.

Christianity sought by this same strange expedient to save both of them.
It separated the two ideas and then exaggerated them both.

In one way Man was to be haughtier than he had ever been before; in another way he was to be humbler than he had ever been before.

In so far as I am Man I am the chief of creatures.