EYMIEU, ANTONIN. – Jesuit, lecturer, and psychologist, b. at Chamaret (Drôme) on 21 Nov. 1861, d. at Marsiglia on 9 Oct. 1933.
The finest fruit of his profound studies in psychology, corroborated by living experience of souls, may be considered the volumes forming the series entitled: Le gouvernement de soi-même, I: Les grandes lois (Paris 1906; Ital. ed., Rome 1973); II: L'obsession et le scrupule (Paris 1906; Ital. ed., Rome 1973); III: L'art de vouloir (Paris 1934); IV: La loi de la vie (ibid. 1921); in all of which logical and scientific vigour aims at forming deep-rooted convictions that resolve themselves into the firmness and constancy of a character tempered, resolute, and self-mastering. The many editions bear witness to their enduring efficacy.
Also noteworthy are: La part des croyants dans les progrès de la science au XIXe siècle (2 vols., ibid. 1915), intended to show 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'altitude de l'homme (ibid. 1916); La Providence et la guerre (ibid. 1917); Les buts de guerre de la Providence (ibid. 1918).