Chesterton wrote about the madman who imagined he was the savior, the Christ: “If we said what we felt, we should say, ‘So you are the Creator and Redeemer of the world: but what a small world it must be! What a little heaven you must inhabit, with angels no bigger than butterflies! How sad it must be to be God, and an inadequate God! . . . How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos, scattering the stars like spangles, and leave you in the open, free like other men to look up as well as down!”
It seems "the hammer of a higher God" is wielded by a psychopath here. For this hammer-wielder seeks to divinize himself as that higher God. And so it helps that the cosmos is "small." That just makes it easier to smash.
Thank you so very much Woebama for your excellent insights, and for the excerpt from Chesterton!