Intellect and Homo Faber

In On the Improvement of the Understanding, Spinoza briefly entertains the notion of the Intellect as a manufacturer of tools, i. e. of means by which it methodically operates.  Though he leaves the notion itself undeveloped, it signals an epochal moment in Philosophical, if not Human, history.  For, the attribution of a tool-making capacity to even Mind in its own sphere, constitutes a shift in the concept of Humans from Homo Sapiens to Homo Faber.