 For Bosanquet, aesthetics is importantly connected to metaphysics; understanding art and the work of the artist requires a broader metaphysical and logical theory. (It is this relation between the metaphysical and the aesthetic, developed in Bosanquet’s later writings, that led Dorothy Emmet to write that Bosanquet’s Three Lectures on Aesthetic was his “most successful book” [Emmet 1998: 28].) For Bosanquet, aesthetic experience was characteristic of the higher experiences we have that give us insight into the full nature of reality, and features of such experiences were features that one also finds in logic and metaphysics. Art, then, can help not only in understanding other aspects of the world, but by revealing something of the “spiritual” character of the world. 