Gordon in his "Dictionary of National Biography" article also wrote that the ethical core interested Taylor more than speculative theology. His work on original sin ("Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin", 1740, written 1735) was against the Calvinistic view of human nature, and was influential: witnessed in Scotland by Robert Burns ("Epistle to John Goudie"), and in New England, according to Jonathan Edwards. It was answered first by David Jennings in "A Vindication of the Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin" (anonymous, 1740). Isaac Watts replied to Taylor in "The Ruin and Recovery of Man" (1740). James Hervey's "Theron and Aspasio" is partly aimed at Taylor, if not explicitly. John Wesley's "Doctrine of Original Sin" (1757) is a detailed answer to Taylor, drawing on Jennings, Hervey and Watts. "Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin" laid a basis for the later Unitarian movement and the American Congregationalists.