Sentence:  We shall not be <WSD>able</WSD> entirely to pass over these connections to the East as we consider Ripe Geometric pottery , the epic and the myth , and the religious evolution of early Greece ; the important point , however , is that these magnificent achievements , unlike those of later decades , were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something