The unbroken demand is the residual capacity to remain under the permanent requirement after every collective demand of higher order has been dissolved. The residual man continues to answer that demand even though the age offers no confirming obligation. The demand itself remains intact. Only the collective obligations that once made its force public have disappeared.
Young men who still feel the pressure of a higher requirement often look for residual duties or residual authorities that will keep the demand alive around them. Most of those authorities have already been emptied by the horizontal forces that dominate the age. The residual path does not wait for external obligation. It continues as the permanent demand from the interior center that still holds the vertical measure.
This solitary demand is the residual form of the older traditional knowledge of the binding law. The man who continues to answer it already performs the residual act. That act does not require collective obligations to remain real.
Answer the demand. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which the higher requirement is collectively enforced. The residual act is to keep the permanent measure decisive in every concrete decision. That decisiveness is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.