“Intellectually, [women] were considered limited; Most English people, including women themselves, believed that a woman was by nature incapable of higher education, being designed by God only for domestic work.” Women were not only excluded from the educational opportunities available to men, they were considered physically incapable of learning the same subjects that men studied. Furthermore, “many men seem to have regarded the capacity for rational thought as exclusively masculine; women, they thought, were guided only by their passions.” These women couldn't escape their emotions long enough to learn anything factual. This hypothesis 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 everything except domestic chores..