What point is Strong making here and what is your assessment

What point is Strong making here, and what is your assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of his position? How does Strong’s distinction between “things” and “devices” serve to support or detract from his claims?

Solution

in this context strong means, the person can face any sort of situations and conditions and he wins it. when compares to others he is having this special characteristic, which makes him special to others. when it comes to weakness, everything which drags us low is weakness.

one have a chance to make the weakness into an opportunity, the one who do like this will becomes a master in his area as sooner as possible. here people will concern about strong things and devices. devices can be used in producing or in processing of other instruments.