Action must now proceed from an interior law that no longer finds support in the external order. The residual man acts according to the permanent measure even though that measure is not recognized by the institutions or the collective life of the age. The law is interior because the external supports for it have withdrawn.
Young men who still feel the demand of a higher standard often look for residual authorities or groups that will supply the law they sense is missing. Most of what they find has already been shaped by the forces of dissolution. The residual path does not wait for an external law. It continues to act from the permanent criterion that remains available to the differentiated individual.
This interior law is not a private preference. It is the residual form of the older sacred and hierarchical law that once ordered traditional action. The man who acts from it already performs the residual duty. That duty does not require collective recognition to remain binding.
Act from the interior law. Do not wait for the age to restore an external order capable of supporting higher action. The residual act is to keep the permanent measure present in every decision. That presence is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.