The Orthodox community, or the religious groups’ dominant at that time, were not flexible enough to allow any new theories to be prevailing in the society they had been ruling since long. Likewise, the financial system which has been dominant since the society had been introduced with money and currency, doesn’t wish to change and is rigid to its set trends since a couple of centuries.
It’s perhaps afraid of the importance it might lose if its principles would be replaced. The book had conspired for a long time, and that reign is popularly known as “the eclipse of Darwinism”, i.e. from the 1880s to 1930s. Despite all the evidence and explanations, “the origin of species” was kept from the “acceptance” by the “responsible” for quite a long time.