Sentence:  Remember that in seeking the modern in Utopia we do not deny the existence of the medieval and the Renaissance there ; we do not even need to commit ourselves to <WSD>assessing</WSD> on the same inconceivable scale the relative importance of the medieval , the Renaissance , and the modern . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of