Nothing matters more than intellectual probity.
Happily, Mr. Savall has borne the standard for his instrument with greater probity and more consistent artistry than have, say, certain tenors or other human embodiments of specific instruments.
Most of the time, voters care little about structures, more about the quality, probity and foibles of the politicians who inhabit them.Mr Salmond, whose party's aim is to make Scotland fully independent, claims to be especially worried about this.
What a Homomuseum, imagined or real, needs running through it is the anarchic passion of a Gay Pride march, like the one scheduled for Manhattan this Sunday, tempered by the watchful, resistant probity of more than a quarter century of developing queer politics.
And although it is not clear whether Fifa's ethics committee will add this latest allegation to the charge sheet faced by Warner, it places yet more doubts over the probity of world football's governing body.
Issues relating to probity were more common in the early, non-clinical course, and largely centred on plagiarism in written work, on lack of respect for rules (such as smoking in Halls of Residence, where it is forbidden), and falsifying signatures.
But it was puritan Christianity in a different form which encouraged a loathing of gambling and of drunkenness and inspired the cult of probity, which - more than Marx - laid the foundation for welfare states where no one needed a miracle.
But political decency will probably delay his return until next year.And the Lib Dems are in danger of losing more than their reputation for probity.
So, as we turn probity into something more rigorous than prudence and sobriety into what increasingly looks like spite, we should be aware that democracy does cost money.
A doctor's son who brushed up against runaway slaves and the local murder of Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, in 1844, he would nonetheless always be governed more by a gentleman's probity than a moralist's passions.
