Action from the unbroken criterion continues after every external standard that once guided action has been broken. The residual man continues to act according to that criterion even though the age offers no shared measure and no shared recognition of higher quality. The criterion itself remains intact. Only the collective conditions that once made it public have disappeared.
Young men who still seek meaningful action often look for residual causes or residual standards that will supply direction from outside. Most of those causes have already been adjusted to the horizontal requirements of the age. The residual path does not wait for external standards. It continues to act from the unbroken criterion that remains available in the interior.
This criterion-based action is the residual form of the older traditional action that once served a living order. The man who keeps acting from the permanent measure already performs the residual duty. That duty does not become less real because it is no longer collective.
Act from the unbroken criterion. Do not wait for the age to restore measures capable of guiding higher action. The residual act is to keep the permanent standard present in every concrete decision. That presence is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.