jump? How does one think a chasm or a hole in the continuity of being? Is that the impasse which some of our radical existentialists have reached, when they insist on trying to think ‘nothing’ or on taking a blind leap into ‘nothing’?—which would seem to be no more than an empty and irrational movement of thought! The existentialist answer to the problem is meant to be serious, but it rests, as we have seen, upon the unacceptable assumption that there is no objective order beyond or within the universe