[1] From the time that his little fingers could grasp a penknife, Owen Warland had been remarkable for a delicate ingenuity, which sometimes produced pretty shapes in wood, principally figures of flowers and birds, and sometimes seemed to aim at the hidden mysteries of mechanism. But it was always for purposes of grace, and never with any mockery of the useful He did not, like the crowd of school-boy artisans, construct little windmills for the rooftop of a barn or watermills across the neighboring brook. Those who discovered such peculiarity in the boy as to think it worth their while to observe him closely, sometimes saw reason to suppose that he was attempting to imitate the beautiful movements of Nature as exemplified in the flight of birds or the activity of little animals. It seemed in fact, a new development of the love of the beautiful, such as might have made him a poet, a painter,or a sculptor, and which was as completely refined from all utilitarian coarseness as it could have been in either of the fine arts. He looked with singular distaste at the stiff and regular processes of ordinary machinery. Being once carried to see a steam engine in the expectation that his intuitive comprehension of mechanical principles would be gratified he turned pale and grew sick, as if something monstrous and unnatural had been presented to him This horror was partly owing to the size and terrible energy of the iron laborer; for the character of Owen's mind was microscopic, and tended naturally to the minute, in accordance with his diminutive frame and the marvellous smallness and delicate power of his fingers . This characteristic minuteness in his objects and accomplishments made the world even more incapable than it might otherwise have been of appreciating Owen's genius. The boy's relatives saw nothing better to be done than to bind him as an apprentice to a watchmaker, hoping that his strange ingenuity might thus be regulated and put to Assessment Questions 4 out of 37 Answered Question 4 What does the use of the word "microscopic"in paragraph 3 emphasize about Owen's character? A. Owen prefers to focus on trivial details. B. Owen prefers to focus on extremely small details. C. Owen struggles to consider other people's perspectives. D. Owen struggles to comprehend complicated ideas.