Action from the residual center continues after every collective center of higher orientation has been dissolved. The residual man continues to act from the permanent center even though the age offers no confirming structure and no shared direction. The center itself remains intact. Only the collective structures that once supported it have disappeared.
Young men who still seek oriented action often look for residual movements or residual causes that will supply the center from outside. Most of those movements have already been reshaped by the horizontal forces that dominate the age. The residual path does not wait for external centering. It continues to act from the interior center that still holds the vertical measure.
This solitary action is the residual form of the older traditional action that once ordered both the individual and the higher functions of a civilization. The man who acts from the center already performs the residual duty. That duty does not require a collective structure to remain real.
Act from the residual center. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which higher orientation is publicly structured. The residual act is to keep the permanent measure effective in every concrete decision. That effectiveness is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.