Continuity of the differentiated type is the residual capacity to remain differentiated after every collective form of higher differentiation has been dissolved. The residual man continues as that type even though the age offers no confirming environment. The type itself remains intact. Only the collective forms that once made its difference public have disappeared.
Young men who still sense the demand for differentiation often look for residual environments or residual circles that will keep the type alive around them. Most of those circles have already been emptied by the horizontal forces that dominate the age. The residual path does not wait for external environment. It continues as the permanent differentiation from the interior center that still holds the vertical measure.
This solitary continuity is the residual form of the older traditional knowledge of qualitative difference. The man who continues as the type already performs the residual act. That act does not require collective forms to remain real.
Remain the type. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which higher differentiation is collectively possible. The residual act is to keep the permanent measure decisive in every concrete relation. That decisiveness is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.