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Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 6, 1 March 1884, Page 6

The Auckland Freethought Association now has 114 members on its roll. “ On thinking the matter over, this theory seems so consonant with reason, that one feels ashamed of having suspected many excellent persons of being moved by mere malice and viciousness of temper to call other folks atheists when, after all, they have been obeying a purely intellectual sense of fitness. If the Jew says, that the Deity is absolute unity, and that it is sheer blasphemy to say that He ever became incarnate in the person of a man ; and, if the Trinitarian says, that the Deity is numerically three as well as numerically one, and that it is sheer blasphemy to say that He did not so become incarnate, it is obvious enough that each must be logically held to deny the existence of the other’s Deity. Therefore, that each has a scientific right to call the other an atheist; and that if he refrains, it is only on the ground of decency and good manners, which should restrain an honourable man from employing even scientifically justifiable language, if custom has given it an abusive connotation.”— Huxley.