1904), The Moral Life and Moral Worth (1911), and his Gifford Lectures which he gave in 1914-15 and were published under the title Moral Values and the Idea of God (second edition 1921). In his obituary, J.H. Muirhead said of this: "I can remember the sense of freshness and power that this book gave us all at the time". The poet Charles Sorley was his son. During the long argument about admitting women as students at Cambridge, there were votes by the Senate in 1897 and again in 1920, following intense public debates among lecturers and undergraduates, and the circulation of many flysheets propounding arguments for and against. Sorley was persistently hostile to any presence of women in Cambridge and argued that they were not after equality but sought power and would damage university life. He authored several flysheets with Prof. Ridgeway - both wanted women totally excluded from Cambridge and instead a separate women's university set up for them. He died in Cambridge on 28 July 1935 aged 79, following an illness from pneumonia. Publications The Ethics of Naturalism (Edinburgh, 1885) Recent Tendencies in Ethics (Edinburgh, 1904) The Moral Life and Moral Worth (Cambridge, 1911) A History of English Philosophy (Cambridge, 1920) References External links William Ritchie Sorley some biographical notes and Lectures available from the Gifford Lectures website 1855 births 1935 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Idealists Scottish philosophers 20th-century Scottish historians People from Selkirk, Scottish Borders 19th-century Scottish people Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Academics of Cardiff University Academics of the University of Aberdeen Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of the British Academy Conservative Party (UK) parliamentary candidates Knightbridge Professors of Philosophy