Excerpt from The Scott Library: Senancour's Obermann In a couple of sentences you dismiss all my sug gestions to the region of dreams. Presentiments, hidden properties of numbers, the philosopher's stone, interaction of stars, cabalistic sciences, high magic, are all pronounced to be chimeras with the same infallible assurance. You are the autocrat; the high pontiff himself could not improve on you. Nevertheless, I am stubborn like all heresiarchs; and further, I am suspicious of your positive knowledge, for I suspect you of being happy. Let us imagine for a moment that everything is going wrong with you, for then you will tolerate my laying bare to you the full scope of my doubts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.