The measure carried alone continues after every collective application of the measure has been abandoned. The residual man continues to carry the permanent measure even though the age offers no confirming application and no shared standard. The measure itself remains intact. Only the collective structures that once applied it have disappeared.
Young men who still seek a reliable standard often look for residual authorities or residual communities that will carry the measure for them. Most of those authorities have already adjusted the measure until it no longer differs from the horizontal demands of the age. The residual path does not wait for external carriage. It continues to carry the permanent measure from the interior center that still recognizes its force.
This solitary carriage 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 applied. 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.