The man who carries the measure alone continues after every collective application of the measure has been abandoned. The residual man continues to apply that measure even though the age offers no shared standard and no external confirmation. The measure itself remains unbroken. Only the public structures that once enforced it have disappeared.
Young men who still seek a reliable standard often look for residual authorities or residual communities that will apply the measure for them. Most of those authorities have already adjusted the measure to fit the requirements of the age. The residual path does not wait for external application. It continues to apply the permanent measure from the interior center that still perceives its authority.
This solitary application is the residual form of the older traditional measure that once ordered both the individual and the civilization. The man who keeps the measure present already performs the residual duty. That duty does not become less real because it is no longer collective.
Carry the measure alone. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which higher standards are publicly enforced. The residual act is to keep the permanent criterion effective in every concrete decision. That effectiveness is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.