Read the following excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson's Essay in the Art of Writing and answer the question: There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface, it is on
the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance, and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the
Strings and pulleys. In a similar way, psychology itself, when pushed to any nicety, discovers an abhorrent baldness, but rather from the fault of our analysis than from
any poverty native to the mind. And perhaps in aesthetics the reason is the same: those disclosures which seem fatal to the dignity of art seem so perhaps only in the
proportion of our ignorance, and those conscious and unconscious artifices which it seems unworthy of the serious artist to employ were yet, if we had the power to
trace them to their springs, indications of a delicacy of the sense finer than we conceive, and hints of ancient harmonies in nature. [-]1 must therefore war that
well-known character, the general reader, that I am here embarked upon a most distasteful business: taking down the picture from the wall and looking on the back
and, like the inquiring child, pulling the musical cart to pieces.

Which statement best represents the author's point of view in this paragraph?

A) The author does not believe there is any logical or acceptable reason to break something down to find out how it works.
B) The author believes the experience of breaking something down to find out how it works often takes away from the beauty of the thing.
C) The author would like it if more people would break interesting and complicated things down to teach him how they work.
D) The author does not know how most things work, so he has to break them down to pieces to figure out what happens inside.