Darwinism failed to Spain through the university but through the press and the war against the university, a stronghold of black over obscurantism. It was getting to know Darwin thanks to the "glorious" revolution of 1868, ie by "politics" and was again plunged into darkness thanks to another "political" the counterrevolution that began in 1875, date in which from the Marques de Orovio ministry glared academic freedom to prevent the spread of notions outside the Catholic gospel (8). The evolutionists went to jail and 37 professors were dismissed from the university and conveniently replaced by others, the evolution went underground, the newspaper, flyer and brochure apocryphal passed from hand to hand, trumpeted by the political forces advanced society, Republicans, socialists, anarchists ... Extract
Lysenko: The materialist theory of evolution in the USSR