1.10 There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations Ne wholly on the surfa Al changes saved
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. [...] I must therefore warn 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
inquining child, pulling the musical cart to pleces.
Which line from this paragraph best represents the author's point of view? (3 points)
*All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface
"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"
O "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 pleces."