Definition of "belittled"

We both are the belittled human race ,One as compared with God and one with space .I had thought ours the more profound disgrace ;But doubtless this was only my conceit .The cloister and the observatory saintTake comfort in about the same complaint.So science and religion really meet. […]

1997, Robert Faggen, Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin‎, University of Michigan Press, page 250