GR translation: a genuine, point-for-point microcosm

[Mike Jing]

V738.26-37, P753.12-23   “We were never that concerned with Slothrop qua
Slothrop,” a spokesman for the Counterforce admitted recently in an
interview with the Wall Street Journal.
       INTERVIEWER: You mean, then, that he was more a rallying-point.
       SPOKESMAN: No, not even that. Opinion even at the start was divided.
It was one of our fatal weaknesses. [I’m sure you want to hear about fatal
weaknesses.] Some called him a “pretext.” Others felt that he was a
genuine, point-for-point microcosm. The Microcosmists, as you must know
from the standard histories, leaped off to an early start. We—it was a very
odd form of heretic-chasing, really. Across the Low Countries, in the
summer. It went on in fields of windmills, marshlands where it was almost
too dark to get a decent sight.

What does "microcosm" mean here exactly?
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