The man who carries the measure is the residual figure who continues to bear the permanent criterion after every collective bearer of higher order has disappeared. He continues to carry it even though the age offers no confirming office. The measure itself remains intact. Only the collective bearers that once made its presence public have disappeared.
Young men who still feel the weight of the measure often look for residual offices or residual figures that will keep it alive around them. Most of those figures have already been emptied by the horizontal forces that dominate the age. The residual path does not wait for external office. It continues as the permanent carrying from the interior center that still holds the vertical measure.
This solitary carrying is the residual form of the older traditional knowledge of the bearer. The man who continues to carry the measure already performs the residual act. That act does not require collective offices to remain real.
Carry the measure. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which the higher criterion is collectively borne. 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.