At the same time they neither neglected nor feared the duty of caring for the material interests of their own country;--the duty of grasping the enormous possibilities upon which we had stumbled, for sharing in the awakening and development of the farther East.
Reid emphasizes the dual responsibility of caring for national interests while seizing opportunities for development in the East.
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