{"product_id":"we-are-mankind-wells-heretics-t-shirt","title":"We are Mankind — Wells Heretics T-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eWells wrote this near the close of \u003cem\u003eThe Outline of History\u003c\/em\u003e in 1920 — the argument that the categories separating people from each other are smaller than the category they all share.\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 wreckage of the First World War. He had watched nationalism carry millions of people to their deaths in the name of lines on a map. His response was to zoom out — all the way out. To the species. To the shared story of where human beings came from and what they were capable of when they stopped treating the tribe as the final unit of loyalty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFive words. The biggest possible frame for who we are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA declaration read in a single breath stays an abstraction. Broken into one word per line, it becomes a countdown — each term forced to stand alone before the next arrives. \u003cem\u003eTrue.\u003c\/em\u003e Then \u003cem\u003enationality.\u003c\/em\u003e Then the turn: \u003cem\u003emankind.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pacing strips the sentence of its political camouflage and makes the claim feel inevitable rather than argued. What Wells meant as provocation, the spacing makes feel like fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Tee\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100% combed and ring-spun cotton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFabric weight: 4.2 oz\/yd² (142 g\/m²)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRetail fit, true to size\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSide-seamed construction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMachine washable, cold water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuoteiac logo on the left sleeve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It’s For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe person who thinks in larger frames. Travelers, internationalists, humanists — anyone who has found the borders between people less interesting than what lies across them. A gift that says something without needing an explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe biggest identity is the one that fits everyone.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/we-are-mankind-mug\"\u003eWe Are Mankind Mug\u003c\/a\u003e. More Wells: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/future-tee\"\u003eFuture Tee\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eH.G. 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