The postmillennialists hold that right-thinking people must establish a thousand year reign of goodness to precede the return of Christ. Reformers of this stripe were the great bane of 19th century US politics and the scourge of drinkers into this century. The good news is that, if we date these efforts from the 1890s, there are only 900 more years of reform left. I can't say. That would make the nineties the decade of government that doesn't see any reason for independent centers of social power to exist at all.
Centuries are tougher to brandmark.
Score one for Il Duce. Whether this would be good , was another matter. It had run from 1914 to 1989, the years of civil war within western civilization and the rise and fall of Soviet communism, which the mass slaughter of World War had made possible. One hundred years ago, in 1899, two imperialist wars were raging which helped foretell the course of the coming century. In the Philippines, the US army was teaching good government and orderly behavior to unruly Filipinos only just liberated from the cruel and arrogant Spanish dons.