“Intellectually, [women] were seen as limited; most Englishmen, including women themselves, thought that a woman was by nature incapable of higher education, having been created by God only for domestic duties.” Women were not only excluded from the educational opportunities offered to men, but were considered physically incapable of learning the same materials men studied. Furthermore, “many men appear to have regarded the capacity for rational thought as exclusively male; women, they assumed, were driven only by their passions.” These women couldn't escape their emotions long enough to learn anything concrete. This assumption is also linked to Renaissance conceptions of biology. This rudimentary conception of heat as a biological difference led people to believe that women were inferior to men in almost all tasks except those related to household chores..