Editing Ralph Cudworth (section)

===Later life===
In 1665, Cudworth almost quarrelled with his fellow-[[Platonism|Platonist]], [[Henry More]], because of the latter's composition of an ethical work which Cudworth feared would interfere with his own long-contemplated treatise on the same subject.<ref>'Life of Cudworth, Appendix B: Letters of Cudworth and More', in Scott, ''An Introduction to Cudworth's Treatise'', [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014300878;view=1up;seq=40 pp. 24–28] (Hathi Trust).</ref> To avoid any difficulties, More published his ''Enchiridion ethicum'' (1666–69), in [[Latin]];<ref>''An Account of Virtue; or, Dr. Henry More's Abridgement of Morals, put into English'' (transl. Edward Southwell), (facsimile of Benjamin Tooke's London (1690) English edn; Facsimile Text Society, New York, 1930), [https://archive.org/details/enchiridionethic00more/page/n11 Internet Archive].</ref> However, Cudworth's planned treatise was never published. His own majestic work, ''The True Intellectual System of the Universe'' (1678),<ref>R. Cudworth, ''The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; Wherein, All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and its Impossibility Demonstrated'' [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_HKbl4NOjBr8C/page/n36 <!-- pg=1 --> (Richard Royston: London, 1678)]</ref> was conceived in three parts of which only the first was completed; he wrote: "there is no reason why this volume should therefore be thought imperfect and incomplete, because it hath not all the Three Things at first Designed by us: it containing all that belongeth to its own particular Title and Subject, and being in that respect no Piece, but a Whole."<ref>R. Cudworth, 'Preface to the Reader', ''True Intellectual System'' (1678).</ref>

[[File:All Saints Church Damaris Cudworth tablet plaque High Laver Essex England.jpg|thumb|right|Memorial to Damaris Cudworth]]
Cudworth was installed as [[Prebendary]] of [[Gloucester]] (1678).<ref name="CCEdp" /> His colleague, [[Benjamin Whichcote]], died at Cudworth's house in Cambridge (1683),<ref>G. Dyer, ''History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge'', (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown: London, 1814), ii, [https://archive.org/details/historyofunivers02dyeruoft/page/355 p. 355] (Google).</ref> and Cudworth himself died (26 June 1688), and was buried in the Chapel of Christ's College.<ref>Epitaph in Mosheim's Preface (1733), i, p. xxix (1773 edn); for his monumental inscription [https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2017/207/114458886_1501186726.jpg].</ref> An oil portrait of Cudworth (from life) hangs in the Hall of [[Christ's College, Cambridge|Christ's College]].<ref>Oil portrait of Ralph Cudworth, image (copyright Christ's College) viewable [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TRDvPMfjquQ/UdqJqLZhIjI/AAAAAAAAApo/-EQjKfkEUr8/s1600/portrait.jpg here].</ref> During Cudworth's time an outdoor Swimming Pool was created at [[Christ's College, Cambridge|Christ's College]] (which still exists), and a carved bust of Cudworth there accompanies those of [[John Milton]] and [[Nicholas Saunderson]].<ref>'Splashing out for a piece of history', [https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/splashing-out-for-a-piece-of-history ''News, 23 July 2010''] (University of Cambridge website). Listing by [https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1125548 Historic England].</ref>

Cudworth's widow, Damaris (née Cradock) Andrewes Cudworth (died 1695), maintained close connections with her daughter, [[Damaris Cudworth Masham]], at [[High Laver]], [[Essex]], which was where she died, and was commemorated in the church with a carved epitaph reputedly composed by the philosopher [[John Locke]].<ref>Will of Damaris Cudworth (P.C.C. 1695); H.R. Fox Bourne, ''The Life of John Locke'', (Harper & Brothers: New York, 1876), [https://archive.org/stream/lifeofjohnlocke02bour#page/306/mode/2up ii, pp. 306–07] (Internet Archive).</ref>