Human Life Means to Me the Life of Beings for Whom

Multiple Choice

Human life means to me the life of beings for whom the leisured activities of thought, art, literature, conversation are the end, and the preservation and propagation of life merely the means. That is why education seems to me so important: it actualizes the potential for leisure, if you like for amateurishness, which is man's prerogative. (C. S. Lewis, Rehabilitations and Other Essays)
This passage exemplifies a(n) _____.

A) explanation
B) conditional statement
C) argument
D) report
E) unsupported assertion