The author would probably most strongly agree with which one of the following statements about the evolution of the industrial system? A. The handicraft system of industry emerged in eighteenth-century England and was subsequently replaced by the machine industry. B. The handicraft system of industrial production has gradually given rise to a mechanistic technology that dominates contemporary industry. C. The handicraft system emerged as the dominant factor of production in eighteenth-century England but was soon replaced by mechanical techniques of production. D. The mechanical system of production that preceded the handicraft system was the precursor of contemporary means of production. E. The industrial arts developed as a result of the growth of the mechanical industry that followed the decline of the handicraft system of production.