What does Daniel Defoe mean by this sentence from his essay "The Education of Women"? "A woman of sense and breeding will scorn as much to...

Defoe argues
in this essay that women are just as intelligent as men but without education, are not anywhere
near the perfect companions they could be. As a matter of fact, he adds, there isn't a problem
with women that education couldn't improve. The only reason he can imagine that men deny women
education is that they are afraid that women will compete with them. He cannot conceive of a God
who would create such wonderful, witty creatures as women to only be "Stewards of our
Houses, Cooks, and Slaves."

Then he says: