Is 'There seems little point in going any further, except to say that this is the  Revised Edition ; one shudders to think of what might have been in the first edition.' an autonomous statement, not logically connected to 'We should continue on.'
There seems little point in going any further, except to say that this is the  Revised Edition ; one shudders to think of what might have been in the first edition.###We should continue on.