Consider the premise. Does the hypothesis naturally and logically follow? Premise: 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. Hypothesis: 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.