Action from the permanent center continues after every collective center of higher order has been dissolved. The residual man continues to act from the interior measure even though the age offers no confirming direction and no shared standard. The center itself remains intact. Only the collective structures that once supplied it have disappeared.
Young men who still seek directed action often look for residual movements or residual authorities 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 direction. 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 civilization. The man who acts from the permanent center already performs the residual act. That act does not require a collective center to remain real.
Act from the permanent center. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which higher action is publicly directed. 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.