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SETON 



He was born at Ludela, in Navarre ; at the age 

 of seventeen he was sent to Toulouse, France, 

 to stud}' law, but soon transferred his interest 

 to religious questions. For ten years he had a 

 varied existence, first in the train of a Fran- 

 ciscan monk who was confessor to Emperor 

 Charles V, then in the company of various 

 Protestant teachers in Geneva and Basel, later 

 as an editor of scientific works for a firm of 

 publishers in Lyons, and finally as a medical 

 student at the University of Paris. He became 

 skilled in surgery, and delivered lectures on 

 medicine and other subjects. 



The various books which Servetus wrote were 

 destroyed as fast as found by Catholic and Cal- 

 vinist alike; so successful was the hunt that 

 only two perfect copies are known of his last 

 book, Rest-itutio Christianismi. In this volume 

 is a description of the pulmonary circulation, 

 for which Servetus is sometimes credited with 

 the discovery of the circulation of the blood, 

 but the rarity of this book even in its^>wn day 

 explains why Harvey is regarded as the true 

 discoverer. 



SERVIA, sur'via. See SERBIA. 

 SERVICE, sur'vis, ROBERT WILLIAM (1876- 

 ), a Canadian poet and novelist who won 

 fame for his stirring ballads about life in the 

 Yukon. He has been called the Canadian Kip- 

 ling, but he must also be given credit for the 

 originality of his material. In some respects 

 he occupies a position more nearly like that 

 of Bret Harte in American literature, for the 

 poems and stories of both men deal with 

 frontier days, with the rough life of the miner, 

 the hunter and the trapper. Service's poems 

 have a characteristic swing which suggests the 

 freedom of the Yukon as he saw it. His first 

 book of verses, The Spell of the Yukon, won 

 for him an international reputation, which has 

 been strengthened by his later work, Songs of 

 a Sourdough, Ballads of a Cheechako and 

 Rhymes of a Rolling Stone. He has also writ- 

 ten two novels, The Trail of '98 and The Pre- 

 tender. 



Service was born at Preston, England, and 

 was educated at Glasgow, Scotland, where he 

 became a bank clerk. He came to Canada in 

 1897, and for several years engaged in farming 

 on Vancouver Island, at the same time making 

 extensive trips along the Pacific coast and 

 through the Yukon. In 1905 he entered the 

 employ of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, 

 which sent him first to White Horse and later 

 to Dawson. After a short time he resigned his 

 position to devote all his time to writing. 



SER'VIUS TUL'LIUS, the sixth of the 

 seven legendary kings of early Rome. He is 

 credited with having been the author of a re- 

 form in the government by which all landown- 

 ers, and not merely the patricians, as formerly, 

 became subject to taxation and were obliged 

 to do military service. This was the first time 

 the plebeian class were recognized as being of 

 any value to the Roman state, and the reform 

 opened the way for a later struggle for the 

 rights of citizenship. Servius is also said to have 

 added two hills to the five already occupied by 

 Rome, and to have enclosed the whole city 

 with a rampart, wall and moat. See ROME. 



SETI I, sa'te, a famous king of ancient 

 Egypt, who reigned about 1350 B.C. He in- 

 vaded Syria and met with some successes, but 

 encountered the Hittites, who compelled him 

 to turn back. His 

 chief claim to 

 fame lies in the 

 magnificent struc- 

 tures which he 

 erected, or began, 

 on many of which 

 are sculptured ac- 

 counts or repre- 

 sentations of his 

 conquests. 

 Among the most 

 important of 

 these is the Hall 

 of Columns at SETI I 



TCarnnk (<?PP The head of the mummy 

 6 of the king and builder who 

 THEBES). The lived at least thirty-two cen- 



great tomb, with turies ago ' 

 its numerous chambers, which he built, was 

 discovered by Belzoni in 1817, and his mummy, 

 with that of his famous son, Rameses II, was 

 found at Deir-el-Bahri in 1881. 



SE'TON, ERNEST THOMPSON (1860- ), a 

 popular writer on nature subjects, identified 

 with the organization of the Boy Scouts of 

 America and the Woodcraft Indians. He was 

 born at South Shields, England, but was taken 

 to Canada in early boyhood, and between the 

 ages of six and ten lived in the Canadian back- 

 woods. Later he lived on the Western plains. 

 Seton was educated at the Toronto Collegiate 

 Institute and at the Royal Academy of Lon- 

 don, and he also studied art in Paris between 

 1890 and 1896. Believing that the average boy 

 needs something to do and something to think 

 about in connection with outdoor life to be- 

 come a good citizen, he organized, in 1901, the 

 Woodcraft Indians. This society was merged 



