{"product_id":"we-are-mankind-wells-heretics-long-sleeve-tee","title":"We Are Mankind — Wells Heretics Long Sleeve Tee","description":"\u003cp\u003eWells wrote this near the end of \u003cem\u003eThe Outline of History\u003c\/em\u003e in 1920. The line is both description and argument: what you share with every other human outranks every line someone drew on a map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eH.G. Wells, The Outline of History (1920)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Our true nationality is mankind.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWells wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Outline of History\u003c\/em\u003e in 1920, in the immediate aftermath of a war that had killed twenty million people in the name of national loyalty. He'd watched borders become body counts. His response was to zoom out as far as a sentence would allow — past countries, past centuries, all the way to the species. Five words. The biggest frame that fits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFelt more at home in a city you'd never visited before than in the town where you grew up\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLooked at a national border on a map and found it smaller than advertised\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRead about a loss somewhere far away and felt it as yours anyway\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Outline of History\u003c\/em\u003e wasn't a political manifesto — it was a scientific claim. We came from the same place. We carry the same capacity for civilization and for destruction. Wells was making an argument that is still being argued a hundred years later, on the same terms, with the same stakes. The people who got it in 1920 still get it now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe design gives each line its own breath — \"nationality\" alone, \"mankind.\" alone — so the last word arrives with the full weight of everything above it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA gold opening mark sits above the quote; the closing mark is cream, matching the text. The attribution — H.G. 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