His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken. - H. G. Wells

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of
existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough — -as most wrong theories are!

So indurated was I at that time to the abomination of the place, that I heard without a touch of emotion the puma victim begin another day of torture. It met its persecutor with a shriek, almost exactly like that of an angry virago.