EYMIEU, ANTONIN. - Jesuit, lecturer and psychologist, b. at Chamaret (Drôme) on 21 Nov. 1861, d. at Marseilles on 9 Oct. 1933.
The finest fruit of his profound studies in psychology, confirmed by his living experience of souls, may be considered the volumes forming the series entitled: Le gouvernement de soi-même. I: Les grandes lois (Paris 1906; Italian trans., Rome 1913); II: L'obsession et le scrupule (Paris 1910, Italian trans., Rome 1913); III: L'art de vouloir (Paris 1934); IV: La loi de la vie (ibid. 1921); in all of which
logical and scientific rigor aims at forming deep-rooted and firmly established convictions, resulting in the steadfastness and constancy of a tempered, resolute character, master of itself. The very numerous editions demonstrate their enduring effectiveness.
Also very useful are: La part des croyants dans les progrès de la science au XIXe siècle (2 vols., ibid. 1915), intended to demonstrate that the most celebrated names of the century in science, if not all Catholics or Christians, were at least believers in God; En face de la douleur. Le rôle de Dieu; l'attitude de l'homme (ibid. 1916); La Providence et la guerre (ibid. 1917); Les buts de guerre de la Providence (ibid. 1918). [Celestino Testore