The measure that does not end continues after every external application of higher standards has been abandoned. The residual man continues to apply the permanent criterion even though the age offers no confirming power and no shared enforcement. The measure itself remains intact. Only the collective structures that once made it public 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 standard until it no longer differs from the horizontal demands 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 recognizes its force.
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.
Keep the measure that does not end. 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.