"Yet as we live we must continue to bet on education, on thought, as our only possible chance. We must bet on it even though as individuals we are apt to feel more helpless than ever before, since the fateful decisions involving life or death for hundreds of millions are still made by a few men, even in the democracies. We must bet because we all nevertheless are involved, and have our own decisions to make.
In any event, there is logic as well as art in the convention that calls for a book on history to have a Conclusion, even if history itself doesn't. Although it is not my business to predict or plan the future, a book about the past inevitably contains a reference to the future." (Herbert J. Muller)
Could you please rephrase the blue sentence?
Thank you.
Cadzao