text:  We really should pity the infatuated prejudice of the man who could see in the deep tragedy the moral tragedy "Marriage a la Mode " any _humorous_ exuberance; or not understand that the passions set forth and for a moral end are not "the fleeting passions of the day " but as permanent as human nature--who could see in such series of pictures any "caricature " or that their object is to "chronicle scandal